Wide /Waid? - German for Wissen, knowledge, wit ( see Saxon chief Wittekind, Widukind ) Wut - German for rage, fury ( see Odin Germanic highest god ) Wut - as a positive force , as in Arbeitswut , determination to work
Wotan ,called Odin Or Oden is the North Germanic language, are all one and the same name for the German god Wotan Wuotan, Woden etc. Differences in sounds and later spellings are caused by the many different Germanic languages or dialects. D = T (Thueringer -pronounce it Dueringer) A=E, O=U , Y-I etc.
Wut and Rage are the German language words for fury, rage. Zu wueten in German means to rage. Wotan was as unpredictable as nature itself.
Wotan was a nature god as were all the ancient gods of people in the world, before christianisation, or taking on of other religions. Wotan was present everywhere and always in disguise. On his travels throughout the world he wore an all encompassing big blue coat . This was the Himmel or sky. He was present in water and all naturplaces were held sacred. Modern Germans still hold nature places sacred and each city has a city forrest where every evening or at least every Sunday city dwellers "go back to their roots", as many people in other places do too.
The Catholic church turned all Germanic nature gods into anti-gods . Powerfull papal propaganda and individual zeal of monks to stamp out all "heathenism" turned the Germanic god Wotan into a wild warring beast , Freya or Frigg into a witch , Old Prussian language god Deiw ( lat.Deus ,greek Zeus ) into Deiwel-Teufel , or devil .
For the months of the year the Roman names have prevailed. For the days of the weeks the Germanic gods were kept.
While Slavic people had completely different gods , the Polish word for water is Woda .
An Old Prussi chief was named Warpoda/e went to see the pope.
Warp - low German language for werfen - to throw ,High German sound shift P=F or PF Oda ,Ode - wealth, treasure (German Allodie, Kleinode ). On Saxon emperors Otto I, II, III 's coins
the name was spelled ODO or ODDO .
Old Prussian - Alt Preussen - used Wurf Keulen and Schlag Keulen , wooden throwing clubs and hitting clubs / maces . Prussians did not used metal swords , wooden clubs were deemed sufficient enough to do what is necessary and were not so final. Only later with attacks by other people did they have to take up swords .
Other Cimbri went to Italy and until the 20th century there were still people speaking a form of German Cimbric in Italy .
It is also assumed by historians and archeologists that Cimbri gave their name to Cimmerians at the Mediterranian Sea as well as ancient people in England .
H. Jonat
Samo is derived from a Germanic language word for same (as in the same way ,same , similar in ME, ON ,Gothic,IE ). Samen in German means seed. H. J.
Anyway, these twelve Wendish (as I read in some book from England) or Moravian wifes, named for the Morava river ,no doubt had children. These children had a German father and lived in Frankish/German? ruled land in Magna Germania. Therefore they were Germans. The Frankish rulers like Charlemagne , Louis, Arnold etc all ruled over that land, or rather the local rulers pleadged allegiances to the Frankish and German rulers. When a king/ emperor died, they often tried to refuse pledge of allegiance for the land held in lien (in Magna Germania) and wars ensued. samples: 983, 1002 , 1024 , 1410 .
First recording of Wends ( and of Jews) in the later Berlin area was ca 720 ( Spreewaner and Havellaner ). Names used were the old Germanic river names of the Spreha ( German: Spree) and Havila ( German : Havel). Tacitus recorded the river names, as known to the locals. No one read Tacitus until the writings were found again in the 14th century.
Word meanings: Waner - woner is Germanic for a person or thing living in a space, such as German : Einwohner - inhabitants or German : Wahn -obsession (crazy idea living in your head ).
Old Prussians (Alt Preussen) had many Burgen , one called : wallewona. Wallewona - would translate to walls and inhabitants, therefore inhabitants living in walled fortifications (German : Wallburgen)
Prussians had three main nature gods : Perkunos , Pikullos and Potrimpos. ("Translate" those and see what you come up with ).
H. Jonat
I'm not sure about 'many' prussian saga histories, or the 13th century. I know of references to Widewut published in the 16th century that are based on folklore (NOT the same as a 'history'), but I don't think they make any credible claim to age. Sagas are interesting evidence, but they are not un-changing. Their evidence is subject to considerable alteration with time. We know a LOT about how the stories of Homer do and do not represent the 13th c. B.C. Trojan War (about 5 centuries before they were written down) and a good bit about how the Scandinavian sagas do and do not represent the Viking age accurately. --MichaelTinkler
To your Welt der Slawen ,by the year 1000 and thereafter, like the famous Drang nach Osten , called by the Flamish writers etc , people were so confused by all the different tribes intermingled in ' the East' and they just called it all Slav territory, similar to the simplistic attitutes of US historians, copied by many, during the Cold war, were everything east of the Elbe starting with GDR was simply 'Communists' and the enemy.
Before the Baltic laguages were called Baltic, they were often called Letto-Slavic. One look at the languages shows, that they are totally seperate languages, but how many people take that one look ?
By the way , notice the Frankish ? H. Jonat