It only resembles “hair” superficially, it’s a term historically used to refer to Romanized tribes (like the Vlachs/Wallachia) and eventually it was reserved for Italians.
Interesting article… the name for Germans (Niemiecki) reminds me of the Romanian word “Nemți” with the same meaning, they must be cognates. Polish is a really fascinating language.
Because it has the same root. In Bulgaria we also call them Немци, pronounced the same way as in Romanian. Ням (nyam), means mute, plural is неми(nemi), Nemți sounds more like people from a land where people are mute (speak gibberish )
https://culture.pl/en/article/wlochy-poland-word-by-word
It only resembles “hair” superficially, it’s a term historically used to refer to Romanized tribes (like the Vlachs/Wallachia) and eventually it was reserved for Italians.
Interesting article… the name for Germans (Niemiecki) reminds me of the Romanian word “Nemți” with the same meaning, they must be cognates. Polish is a really fascinating language.
Because it has the same root. In Bulgaria we also call them Немци, pronounced the same way as in Romanian. Ням (nyam), means mute, plural is неми(nemi), Nemți sounds more like people from a land where people are mute (speak gibberish )
Doesn’t that mean “mute”, as in “their non-Slavic language sounds like gibberish to us”?