It had long been suspected from all the Germanic sources that this report is too simple, a suspicion confirmed by the archaeology; namely, the fibulae, or brooches, worn by the women.

In common with other Slavic groups, they were often described by Germanic sources as Wends.

English folklore is largely drawn from Germanic, Celtic and Christian sources.

Other more ordinary words were replaced by coinages from Vulgar Latin or Germanic sources because the classical words had fallen into disuse.

The reason, I believe, is that both "conceived" and "liberty" derive from Latin as opposed to Germanic sources.

This in turn is of uncertain origin - perhaps from a Germanic source akin to English "mesh", but perhaps from mask- "black", a borrowing from a pre-Indo-European language.

The word Coblynau is derived from the English Goblin ultimately derived from a Germanic source akin to the German Kobold, via the French Gobelin.

The word "soup" is a cognate of "sop", both stemming ultimately from the same Germanic source.

In common with other Slavic groups between the Elbe and Oder Rivers, they were often described by Germanic sources as Wends.