5. That sometimes it has been general to the whole nation--_Unde fit ut tantae populorum multitudines arctoo sub axe oriantur, ut non immerito universa illa regio Tanai tenus usque ad occiduum, licet et propriis loca ea singula nuncupentur nominibus, generali tamen vocabulo Germania vocitetur ... Gothi, siquidem, Vandalique, Rugi, Heruli, atque Turcilingi, necnon etiam aliae feroces ac barbarae nationes e Germania prodierunt._--Paulus Diaconus. 6. That sometimes it has been peculiar and distinctive to certain prominent portions of the nation--_equi fraenis_ Germanicis, _sellis_ Saxonicis _falerati_. 7. That the general power of the word has been, with few exceptions, limited to the Germans of Germany. We do not find either English or Scandinavian writers calling their countrymen _Germani_. 8. That the two German tribes most generally meant, when the word _German_ is used in a limited sense, are the Franks and the Alemanni. 9. That by a similar latitude the words _Francic_ and {57} _Alemannic_ have been occasionally used as synonymous with _Germanic_. 10. That the origin of the word _Germani_, in the Latin language, is a point upon which there are two hypotheses. _a._ That it is connected with the Latin word _Germani_=_brothers_, meaning either tribes akin to one another, or tribes in a degree of _brotherly_ alliance with Rome. _b._ That it grew out of some such German word as _Herman_, _Irmin_, _Wehrmann_, or the _Herm-_ in _Hermunduri_, _Hermiones_, &c. Neither of these views satisfies the present writer. For all the facts concerning the word _Germani_, see the Introduction to the third edition of the Deutsche Grammar. s. 99. _Dutch._--For the purposes of Philology the meaning given to this word is inconvenient. In England, it means the language of the people of Holland. In Germany, Holland, and Scandinavia, it means the language of the people of Germany in _general_; and this _general_ power of the word is retained even with us in the expression High-Dutch, and Low-Dutch. In the present work the term is avoided as much as possible. Nevertheless, wherever it occurs it means the Dutch of Holland. The origin of the word has been a subject of much investigation; the question, however, may be considered to be settled by the remarks of Grimm, D. G.--_Introduction to the third edition_. 1. It was originally no national name at all. 2. In the earliest passage where it occurs, the derivative form _thiudisk[^o]_ corresponds with the Greek word [Greek: ethnikos]--_The Moeso-Gothic Translation of the New Testament_--_Galatians_, ii. 14. 3. The derivation of the word from the substantive _thiudu_=_a people_, _a nation_, is undoubted.