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This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. You can help. The talk page may contain suggestions. (May 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The list of early Germanic peoples is a catalog of ancient Germanic cultures, tribal groups, and other alliances of Germanic tribes and civilizations from antiquity. This information is derived from ...
Several thick forest once occupied the area of Holstein, from which the territory derives its name (Holta[z] "forest"). [83] The name Falstr probably derives from a root fal, one of the ethnic names for a group of the Saxons, found in MLG as val, equivalent to Slavic pol(ije) ("flat land, field") with a suffix -str. [84]
Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), German-Polish-British tennis player, highest world ranking # 6; Birgit Prinz (born 1977), football player; Lina Radke (1903–1983), athlete; Teodor Regedziński (also known as Theodor Reger) (1894–1954), Polish chess master of German origin; father's name was Reger; Otto Rehhagel (born 1938), football player and ...
For this reason a new word was needed to help differentiate between them. Thus the word theodisc evolved from the Germanic word theoda (the people) with the Latin suffix-iscus, to mean "belonging to the people", i.e. the people's language. The German princes choose their king (illustration in the Sachsenspiegel).
The religious aspect [of Germanic names] seems to be an inherited, Indo-European trace, which the Germanic languages share with Greek and other Indo-European languages." [310] One point of debate surrounding Germanic name-giving practice is whether name elements were considered semantically meaningful when combined. [310]
Lists of German people by school affiliation (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Lists of German people" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
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Some common names are Northern Albanian clan names that double as place names such as Kelmendi and Shkreli. Other notable clan-origin names include Berisha, Krasniqi and Gashi. These sorts of names are very common in far Northern Albania and in Kosovo. Colors: of which Kuqi (red) and Bardhi (white) are the most commonly used as surnames.