[-ish] Ireland, Scotland = Irish, Scottish

[-an] Morocco, Germany = Moroccan, German

[-ese] Portugal, China = Portuguese, Chinese

What rule is at play here? 🤔

Cheers!

  • leds@feddit.dk
    6·
    5 months ago

    Denmark -> Dane

    I guess that actually the other way around, Denmark : Dane’s field/farm(there is a better English word for mark but can’t remember)

      • gerryflap@feddit.nl
        3·
        5 months ago

        Dutch is such a weird one. We don’t call ourselves “Dutch” in Dutch, we call ourselves “Nederlands”. This would be something like “Netherlandish” in English. We do call Germans “Duits” though, and they call themselves “Deutsch”. Somehow in English German and Dutch got a bit messed up. The reason is probably that during the middle ages we did refer to our language as “Dietsch”, so that probably stayed around.