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Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from LatinGermānus, a term introduced by Julius Caesar from a Gaulish word for a group of tribes living in Northeastern Gaul (probably originally the name of one of these tribes). The original meaning was probably “neighbor” (cf. Old Irishgairm(“neighbor”)), or perhaps “noisy” (cf. Old Irishgarim(“to shout”)).
romieši ģermāņus pazina labi ― the Romans knew the Germans (= Germanic people) well
ģermāņi ap 1. gadsimtu dzīvoja plašās teritorijās starp Reinu un Vislu no rietumiem uz austrumiem ― the Germanic peoples around the 1st century (CE) lived over a wide terriotry between the Rhine and the Vistula from west to east
