Slavs
The Slavic autonym *Slovenin' is usually considered (e.g. by Roman Jakobson) a derivation from slovo "word", originally denoting "people who speak (the same language)," i.e. people who understand each other, in contrast to the Slavic word denoting "foreign people" - nemci, meaning "mumbling, murmuring people" (from Slavic *nem' - "mumbling, mute").
What slavic word denotes "foreign people?"
nemci
people who understand each other, in contrast to the Slavic word denoting "foreign people" - nemci, meaning "mumbling, murmuring people" (from Slavic *nem' - "mumbling, mute").
"foreign people