Lithuanian and Latvian: Vokietija and Vācija, respectively

[Whodunit]

Hello,

Inspired by this thread, I want to ask you about the etymology for the words Vokietija (language: vokiečių) and Vācija (language: vācu) in Lithuanian and Latvian, respectively. Some dictionaries (Wikipedia) claim it means the people, this page tells me it's from a word meaning west, but I can't find the root for that word. If Wikipedia is correct, the root should be *fulka-, but that seems a bit far-fetched to me. Which etymology is correct?

Thanks in advance.

 

[karuna]

I don't have an access to the Etymology dictionary right now but I wonder about this myself. Could it be that actually it is derived from the name of some tribe that lived in this teritory?

 

[Whodunit]

I don't have an access to the Etymology dictionary right now but I wonder about this myself. Could it be that actually it is derived from the name of some tribe that lived in this teritory?

Hi Karuna and thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately, this doesn't help me much and this (enter vokieči...) is too hard for me to understood. Maybe you can make sense out of the latter?