Talk:German (mythology)

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According to Babelfish, his name, Герман, comes back Herman, not "German", tho it may be pronounced as such. (Also, I get a wierd feeling of his name being shared with a country...) Does it bear changing to "Herman"? TREKphiler ^{hit me ♠} 01:42, 5 September 2009 (UTC) (BTW, I'm not going to be watching or arguing for/against, just asking.)[reply]

Hello! I don't think that the name of this mythological figure has anything to do with the ethnonym. I want to say that in Romanian folklore, an old name for March was Germanar, coming from Latin, where the verb "germinare" means "to sprout". It was a name for the month in which vegetation comes above ground again. I did not search for any academic references about this cross-cultural tradition, but it is more likely that the name comes from Romanian than having any connection to the German people. Also note that the tradition of German could be found in Eastern Serbia and Northern Bulgaria, regions not only close to Romania but where there is also an important population of Romanians (Timoc Valley). In Eastern Europe a more common name for the Germans is formed from nemets, nemtsy. Jumahess (talk) 20:09, 28 April 2012 (UTC)Jumahess[reply]

This mythological being comes from the Slavic mythology. His original Slavic name was not "German", but probably something similar to that. The name changed through association with the Christian saint Germanos (Latinized "Germanus"). Such Christianization of similarly sounding Slavic names has been observed in other cases. "Germanos" on the other hand is a Greek given name. Vladimir (talk) 18:40, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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