I know - that's why I posted about the word for German not Germany. Nimyetska and Nimyetski can equally well mean German depending on the gender of the noun being described. Germany is a relatively new concept as a nation state and its peoples were previously diverse. I guess that's why there are lots of different adjectives in different languages to mean German.

Here's an interesting one. What about Laos? The name of the country in Lao is pronounced Lao. The "s" came along because the French colonials imposed their own spelling when they transliterated Lao names into their alphabet - hence a silent "s". Similarly the capital - pronounced Vieng Chang - was spelled as Vientiane. Yet although the French spellings have poersisted in the west, the pronunciation has slipped to English - hence La-oss and Vee-en-tee-ahn. Even Lao people now use these English pronunbciations when speaking English.