Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *winidazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_winidaz
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*wenh₁-to wish, desire, love
nounmasculinea-stema member of the “Baltic Veneti” (tribe of unknown affiliation)an eastern foreigner, a Slav, WendFrom the name of the “Vistula Veneti” or “Baltic Veneti”, one of at least three ancient tribal groupings going by the name *Wenet-. What kind of tribe this was is unknown. It may have been Proto-Balto-Slavic. Another theory postulates that it was Germanic and its name came to be assigned to the Slavs who repopulated their territory during the Migration Period. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (‘to love, desire’). Compare Proto-Germanic *winiz (‘friend’) and Latin Venetī.