Comment by orbital-decay
8 hours ago
No idea where you're getting it from, Germans are Nemci in Russian as well. It's rather "unable to speak the language", meant for all foreigners but later stuck to Germans, presumably because German traders were the most common foreigners.
Apologies, it was mostly from running across different Russian maps with Германия that I took it as such (in Serbian it is Немачка). I stand corrected!
Nem/нем literally means "mute" in Serbian, perhaps it's a latter evolution per region either way.
>Nem/нем literally means "mute" in Serbian,
Same in Russian
нем\немой - mute
немота - muteness
But yes, we do use Germany for country's name :)
>"mute" in Serbian
Very far from Serbian only. Bulgarian, Russian, and even Balti-Slavic like Latvian is similar enough.
It seems to me that you have entirely discredited yourself. You confidently make claims about the Russian language but don't even know the most basic thing about the point you were making.
It seems that I was wrong only partially, and this was totally not the core of my point (they do call the country Germaniya).
If making one mistake discredits the entire take, I'd hate to be your conversing partner ever.
> Germans are Nemci in Russian as well
I wanted to check; are you implying that Russian is not a Slavic language?
No, GP is saying that Russian uses the Latin root for Germans, I'm saying it doesn't. (it does for Germany though: "Germaniya").
I think I may have fallen victim to a GP midflight edit - I agree with you fwiw, it’s a stone cold fact.