As discussed here and here, the people living in East Greenland are the
Tunumiit – East Greenlander(s)
meaning “those who live on the “tunu” or “back side” (of Greenland)”, based on the West Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) word tunumiut, and so being a name given to them by the
Kalaallit – (West) Greenlander(s)
meaning “those with dried skins”, singular kalaaleq, which came from Old Norse word skræling (Note 1), a name given to them by the
Norrœnir menn – Norse(men)
meaning “those from the North”, presumably an ethnonym given from the perspective of those who stayed further south, who we might generically call
which is based on the Latin word Germānī, being a name (of uncertain origin) given by the
which in turn may be based on the ethnonym Ruma (and possibly derived from Etruscan Rumon - River Tiber) being the name of one of the tribes of
being the term that Etruscans used to describe themselves, and since this appears to have the generic meaning of “people” as well as “Etruscans”, it would be a self-standing endonym (Note 2), and is accordingly where this trail stops, as far as I can tell!
OK, so the “Germānī” link in the chain is a bit of a cheat (as it’s not an endonym, and is also a retrospectively applied term for a very wide group of people), but I do think it’s interesting that the first three ethnonyms are all clearly adopted exonyms – i.e. names given to a people from the perspective of another people, and which were ultimately adopted by them as their own self-descriptions within their own language.
Note 1: See diagram below contained within Holst’s book to see how this change took place:
That author has no doubt that this is the true derivation.
Note 2: Like the Germans in fact (being Deutsch, from PIE *teuta meaning "people").
Here are close ups of the initial picture:
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