That info is a mess, and doesn’t really apply to the topic. It’s also misleading.
The root of the word afaik is found in exactly one word each of the three relevant languages: “deutsch”, “duits”, “dutch”.
“deutsch” is german and means german.
“duits” is dutch and means german.
“dutch” is english and means dutch.
So if you literally translate “dutch land” using their closest equivalents based on word history into any germanic language, you will obtain “german land” i.e. germany.
No idea what english was doing here, but every germanic language can agree the word-family of dutch should have it mean german.
Maybe the netherlands were the only relevant country to england so they just called those particular duitsmen the only duits and then had to replace the original meaning of the word with german when duits was changed.
Either way, the etymology of the word “þiudiskaz” is definitely not the reason the dutch are called that in english, the reason for that must be in english itself probably in the last 500 years somewhere. It is a uniquely english and relatively modern phenomenon, forming the meme of this post since it neither makes sense nor matches and of the actual nations or native languages involved.
That info is a mess, and doesn’t really apply to the topic. It’s also misleading.
The root of the word afaik is found in exactly one word each of the three relevant languages: “deutsch”, “duits”, “dutch”.
“deutsch” is german and means german.
“duits” is dutch and means german.
“dutch” is english and means dutch.
So if you literally translate “dutch land” using their closest equivalents based on word history into any germanic language, you will obtain “german land” i.e. germany.
No idea what english was doing here, but every germanic language can agree the word-family of dutch should have it mean german.
Maybe the netherlands were the only relevant country to england so they just called those particular duitsmen the only duits and then had to replace the original meaning of the word with german when duits was changed.
Either way, the etymology of the word “þiudiskaz” is definitely not the reason the dutch are called that in english, the reason for that must be in english itself probably in the last 500 years somewhere. It is a uniquely english and relatively modern phenomenon, forming the meme of this post since it neither makes sense nor matches and of the actual nations or native languages involved.