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No it doesn't https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/deutsch#German https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/deutsch#German

• danans 5y ago
  Both the name of the tribe and the ethnonym derive from the same PIE and proto Germanic root meaning something like "the people". They are closer to each other etymologically than any other words for "German".
  • CorrectHorseBat 5y ago
    Which is quite a different thing than what you said before. Just like one day I might be genetically closer to my brother than anyone else alive in the world, but he still wouldn't be my father.
    • danans 5y ago
      I don't disagree with that - my wording was sloppy - but also consider that words aren't like genes. Horizontal phonetic transfer and phonetic reevaluation via processes like folk etymology are pervasive today and were also in the ancient past.
  • zokier 5y ago
    Oh, there is whole wikipedia article about this topic (of course..) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodiscus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodiscus > While morphologically similar, the Latin root Teutonic for "Germanic" is more distantly related, and originally a name of a Celtic or Germanic tribe that inhabited coastal Germany. It came probably via Celtic from Proto-Germanic þeudanaz ("ruler", "leader of the people"), from þeudō ("people, tribe"), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ ("people", "tribe").