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Other Suebi apparently remained in or near to the original homeland areas near the Elbe and the modern Czech Republic, occasionally still being referred to by this term. Another group of Suebi, the so-called "northern Suebi" were described as a part of the Saxons in 569 under the Frankish king Sigebert I in areas of today's Saxony-Anhalt.
Little is known about the Suebi who crossed the Rhine on the night of 31 December 406 AD and entered the Roman Empire. It is speculated that these Suevi are the same group as the Quadi, who are mentioned in early writings as living north of the middle Danube, in what is now lower Austria and western Slovakia, [3] [4] and who played an important part in the Germanic Wars of the 2nd century ...
The names, primarily of East Germanic origin, were used by the Suebi, Goths, Vandals and Burgundians. With the names, the Galicians inherited the Germanic onomastic system; a person used one name (sometimes a nickname or alias), with no surname, occasionally adding a patronymic. More than 1,000 such names have been preserved in local records.
The use of the back vowels "u" and "o": If the word has only one back vowel sound that occurs in the ultimate position, o is used. Examples: pitó, lisód, li`og, didto, `amó, itóm, nano, ka`aralo. Exceptions: kun; If the word has more than two back vowels, u is used in the second or third to the last syllable and o is used
Following Smith, Ariovistus translates more directly to "general", raising the possibility that the name is a title granted to the man by the Suebi, his real name subsequently eclipsed by it. Caesar relates [25] that the Suebi maintained a citizen army of 100,000 men picked yearly, and Tacitus [26] that the Suebi were not one tribe. Ariovistus ...
The Suebi tribal group also included the Alamanni and the Langobards, [2] but whether the latter group were part of the Suebi is doubtful. [1] In the 1st century AD, the Suebi were concentrated at the Elbe river, but the Huns would make some of them cross the Rhine and reach the Iberian Peninsula [2].
The Datu sa Pulu tries to advise his brother but to no avail. He then decides to kill Pat-I-Mata. So he builds a cage. Seeing the cage, Pat-I-Mata asks what it is for. The Datu replies that it is constructed to protect them from an incoming storm. Being greedy, Pat-I-Mata asks for the cage saying that the Datu can make his own anytime.
Krus na Ligas: Quezon City: Named for a local type of nut tree which took the form of a cross. [28] La Huerta: Parañaque: Spanish for "the orchard." [29] La Loma: Quezon City: Spanish for "the knoll." [30] Laging Handa: Quezon City: Filipino for "always prepared," the motto of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines after whom the village was named ...