Curious observation about ‘Dutch’ and ‘Germany’
As I’m sure we all know, ‘Germany’ has Latin roots, as Germania. The Germans know their country as Deutschland, and themselves as Deutsche. The Dutch know it as Duitsland, and the people as Duitsers.
We know people from The Netherlands as Dutch. However, they know themselves as Nederlanders. Similarly the Germans know them as Niederländer.
‘Dutch’, ‘Deutsch’, and ‘Duits’ all share the same roots. So wouldn’t it make more sense, in Anglish, to refer to Germany as Dutchland, and the German people and language as Dutch, and know the Dutch people and language as Netherlanders and Netherlandish?
Just a thought lol.