Why Greeks aren't called 'Greeks' in Greek 🇬🇷

The Greek word for "Greek" isn't related to the term used in various Western European languages: greco, griego, grec — why are these so different from the Greek word for "Greeks": Hellenes. Do any other languages use the "Hellenic" root? What languages use neither? And why is it we don't use the "Hellenic" term in these languages? Is it a vast conspiracy against the Greeks?

Sources: see below.

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SOURCES

Greek: A History of the Language and its People, by Geoffrey Horrocks

Robert S. P. Beekes (2009). Etymological Dictionary of Greek

Aristotle, Meteorologica, I, 352b.

Homer. Iliad, 2.681–685

Pausanias, Periegesis, book 5, p. 136.

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00:00 Intro
00:23 Ἕλληνες & Ἀχαιοί (Héllēnes & Achaîoi)
01:20 The Iliad's "Hellas"
02:05 Hellen and the Amphictyonic League
03:58 Why they're "Greeks" in English and other languages
06:05 Graikoí from Graea
07:00 But where is Graea???
07:31 Graea = Tanagra
09:06 Etymology of Graea
09:51 Graikoí as the pre-Classical term for "Greeks"
12:10 The Parian Marble
12:54 Shaka when the walls fell
15:10 Coptic for "Greek"
16:27 Greek Paranoia
16:38 Analogy with "German"
17:40 Greeks do this too
18:31 Turkey...yay!....?
19:07 Outtakes