[-ish] Ireland, Scotland = Irish, Scottish

[-an] Morocco, Germany = Moroccan, German

[-ese] Portugal, China = Portuguese, Chinese

What rule is at play here? 🤔

Cheers!

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    121·
    6 months ago

    Also, in Deutschland, the descendents of the Alemmani are called Germans for some awful reason.

      • Draghetta@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        The German people, as a people, started as the unification of the Germanic tribes. The unified tribe called itself the tribe of all men, Alle Männer in modern German. The history of those times is narrated by romans and Greeks so we have a romanised version of that name, alamanni.