Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *Alamann-Scott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_alamann_v2
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The fluidity of barbarian identity: the ethnogenesis of Alemanni and Suebi, AD 200±500Hans JHummerEarly Medieval Europe711-271998The Oxford dictionary of English etymologyCharles T.OnionsOxfordOxford Univ. Press1996ISBN: 978-0-19-861112-7A Handbook of Germanic EtymologyVladimirOrelBrill2003
propnmasculineconsonant stema member of the Alemanniin the plural, the Alemanni, a Germanic people or coalition of Late AntiquityA compound of *ala- and *mann-, literally ‘all humans’ or ‘the people as a whole.’ The name may originally have designated an inclusive or heterogeneous coalition, however, the exact original force of the name (‘men of every origin,’ ‘the whole people,’ or an intensified ‘men par excellence’) remains uncertain Hummer 1998: 1–12, 25–26Onions 1996: 24Orel 2003: 12.