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"unrelated meaning in Latin is 'blood relation'" - If it is unrelated then what is the etymology of the word? It's not a Germanic word and it was never used by the Germanic peoples during the time of the Romans.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.226.145.85 (talk • contribs)

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"of the same parents or grandparents," c.1300, from O.Fr. germain, from L. germanus "of brothers and sisters," related to germen (gen. germinis) "sprout, bud," dissimilated from PIE *gen(e)-men-, from base *gene- "to give birth, beget" (see genus).

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"Teuton," 1530, from L. Germanus, first attested in writings of Julius Caesar, who used Germani to designate a group of tribes in northeastern Gaul, origin unknown, probably the name of an individual tribe. It is perhaps of Gaulish (Celtic) origin, perhaps originally meaning "noisy" (cf. O.Ir. garim "to shout") or "neighbor" (cf. O.Ir. gair "neighbor"). The earlier Eng. word was Almain or Dutch. Their name for themselves was the root word of modern Ger. Deutsch (see Dutch). Roman writers also used Teutoni as a German tribal name, and Latin writers after about 875 commonly refer to the German language as teutonicus. See also Alemanni. The German shepherd (dog) (1922) translates Ger. deutscher Schäferhund. - Sup dudes?[[User:Kitler005]] 05:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)