NEMETI

Ask a historian or a linguist about the origin of the Russian word 'nemetskiy' (meaning 'German'), and you'll immediately hear a very confident story of the word being derived from 'nemoy' - 'dumb', 'mute'. Like if Germans didn't speak Russian and kept silence seeming dumb. This version is considered to be more than official.

But what about this image of a Ptolemy's map, showing in the II century a clearly German tribe named NEMETI?

Long before the Russian language, let alone the word 'nemoy'...

Needless to say, that the word 'Nemeti' perfectly seems to be another link in already very long chain of Kartvelian '-eti'-toponyms - 'land of nemi'. What is 'nemi', for now is not clear.