Venedi

The ethnonym has been connected to venia (“kindness, grace, friendliness”) in reference to the tribe's friendly nature, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁-. More at Veneti. Found in ancient Greek as Οὐενέδαι (Ouenédai).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛ.nɛ.diː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛː.ne.d̪i]

Venedī m pl (genitive Venedōrum); second declension

1. A tribe of Sarmatia who dwelt along the course of the river Vistula

Second-declension noun, plural only.

• “Venedi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Venedi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Venedae”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Pokorny 1959: 1146 - 1147; Steinacher 2002: 33
• Campbell, Lyle (2004). Historical Linguistics. MIT Press. p. 418.