"Finland är ett vackert land."
Translation:Finland is a beautiful country.
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Exactly. Compare it with Italian "Tedesco".
They all come from the Latin word "Theodiscus", which meant "the common people" of what used to be the region of the Teutonic Kingdom in medieval times.
Then every language had their own version of the word:
German: Deutsch
English: Dutch
Dutch: Duits
Yiddish: Daytsh
Swedish: Tysk
Norwegian: Tysk
Danish: Tysk
Icelandic: Þýsk
Spanish: Tudesco
Italian: Tedesco
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Saksa apparently comes from German Sachsen (“Saxony”), which is a region in present-day Germany. The more you know!
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Isn't 'German' the English word for 'Tysk'? Dutch would still be... Dutch (spoken in The Netherlands and Flanders, Belgium).
Although I get that the word 'Dutch' clearly has the same origin as the rest of these words.
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Actually no one knows where the name comes from, but one of the theories is the swamp theory