Note 3 — Chapter I
J. R. Johnston translation
Nemzani plur. Nimza, borrowed into the Turkish language from the Sclavonic, in which Niemetz means a silent fellow, and per abusum, a German, as he cannot speak their language, and having the same meaning as Deutscher among the Sclaves, where this word is still used as a term of reproach, arising from the bad blood left by the old Sclavonic wars, though the Turks, as I am fully convinced, use the word without any bad meaning. In Europe, on the contrary, the word Sclave (slave) is no title of honour, and even the Greeks sneer at Σκλαβος.