Allemanni would be the form of "Alle Maenner" in the German (presumably Low German) dialect of the region at the time, I presume. From what I know of German history of the period (not a whole lot), it was actually a confederation of tribes, hence the "all men" designation.
Tangentially, while we're on the subject of the Inuit/"eskimo", I have been given to understand that the native population in Greenland refers to itself with a word derived from Old Norse, from the Viking colonists in Greenland. Seems odd that they would have appropriated the foreigners' term. The Norse means something like "little man" or, for some reason, "screaming man" (have to go look this up in my Norse grammar at home).
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>I thought it came from the "Allemanni," who were a German tribe who
>had some... friction... with the Franks back when both tribes lived
>on the right bank of the Rhine?
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>Brad
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