However, when campaigning against Germanic tribes of Germania, Alexander attempted to bring peace by engaging in diplomacy and bribery.

However, the degree of influence remains debated, and it has recently been argued that its grammatical influence accounts for the substantial innovations noted between English and the other West Germanic languages.

However, throughout Germanic tradition, given names which contain elf as an element are frequently attested, suggesting that the malevolent or evil image of elves in West Germanic tradition was a secondary development, reinforced by Christianization.

However, since it also shares similarities with other Western Indo-European branches ( particularly Germanic ), some linguists prefer to consider it an independent Indo-European language.

However, he sought to win over the support of the civil population, which was necessary for his operations in Gaul and also to show his largely Germanic army the benefits of Imperial rule.

However, very similar-looking alterations in the systems of long vowels in the West Germanic languages greatly postdate any possible notion of a proto-language innovation ( and cannot readily be regarded as " areal ", either, since English and continental West Germanic were not a linguistic area ).

However, Urban T. Holmes estimated that a Germanic language was spoken as a second tongue by public officials in western Austrasia and Neustria as late as the 850s, and that it completely disappeared as a spoken language from these regions only during the 10th century.

However, pronunciation, particularly of the vowel phonemes, has changed at least as much as in the other North Germanic languages.

However, all modern Germanic languages save English and Scots retain the more general sense: for example, German Tier, Alemannic Diere or Tiere, Pennsylvania Dutch Gedier, Dutch dier, Afrikaans dier, Limburgish diere, Norwegian dyr, Swedish djur, Danish dyr, Icelandic dýr, Faroese dýr, West Frisian dier, and North Frisian diarten, all of which mean " animal.

However it must be taken into account that the Germanic victors would have removed the bodies of their fallen, and their practice of burying their own dead warriors ' battle gear with them must have contributed to the lack of Germanic relics.

However, the reduction of unstressed vowels to schwa ( i. e., to unpronounced vowels ), due to a fixed stress location, contributed to this process, a pattern which is common to many Germanic languages ( although a few, such as dialects of Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese, have not undergone this reduction of vowel sounds ).

However, the widespread use of the-s plural may suggest French influence ; compare English pluralization to that of German and Dutch ( English, Dutch, and German are all categorized by many as West Germanic languages ).

However, other scholars note that courtly love was certainly tied to the Church's effort to civilize the crude Germanic feudal codes in the late 11th century.

However, being Orthodox Catholics rather than Arians, as the Goths and other Germanic tribes were, they were not formally barred from the throne.

However, the Germanic migrations of the 5th century brought about a break with this tradition.

However, the Saarbrücken area was first settled by Celts and not by Germanic peoples.

However, the term is not used for the parliaments of Norway and Denmark, which are called Stortinget and Folketinget respectively ( based on the Germanic þing instead of dag ).

However, as a Frankish lord, he probably knew himself by the old Germanic version of Wilhelm.

However, the Germanic languages appear to have had a northward rather than southward progression from the initial contact with the speakers of Indo-European languages near Denmark or Jutland H. Davidson notes a similar northward progression of mythology where elements of Proto-Germanic concepts have morphed or been combined by the time of the recording of the Icelandic sagas.

However, English syntax was influenced by Celtic languages, starting from the Middle English ; for example, the system of continuous tenses ( absent in other Germanic languages ) was a cliche of similar Celtic phrasal structures.

However, in 18th century the Germanic way of counting was still used as can be found e. g. in Sing a Song of Sixpence.

However, some Slavic communities managed to survive in rural Macedonia.

However, elements of certain names and words used in Mecklenburg speak to the lingering Slavic influence.

However, some historians believe that the word " Dagome " is a melding of two names: the Christian " Dago ," for " Dagobert " ( Mieszko's hypothetical baptismal name ), and the Slavic " Me ," for " Mieszko.

However, the intellectual circle around the philologist Matija Čop and the Romantic poet France Prešeren was influential in affirming the idea of Slovene linguistic and cultural individuality, refusing the idea of merging the Slovenes into a wider Slavic nation.

However, they came into conflict with German ecclesiastics who opposed their efforts to create a specifically Slavic liturgy.

However up to the late 15th century most villagers in the Obotritic area were still speaking Slavic dialects ( Polabian language ), although subsequently their language changed to German.

However, there appeared to be a large set of words in which the agreement of Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Baltic, Slavic etc.

) However, in the early years, specific locations behind the Iron Curtain are named ( such as Lubyanka prison in the episode " Memory ") and many of the targets appear to be leaders of fictional Slavic countries.

However, his daughter Sara Karloff publicly denied any knowledge of Slavic forebears, " Karloff " or otherwise.

However, in Dalmatia, Croatia the liturgy was celebrated in Church Slavonic, and authorisation for use of this language was extended to some other Slavic regions between 1886 and 1935.

However, the appellation " Greek " was abandoned by Slavic and other national orthodox churches in connection with their peoples ' national awakenings, from as early as the 10th century A. D.

However, the name of Belobog is not mentioned by Helmold anywhere in his Chronica, nor is it ever mentioned in any of the historic sources that describe the gods of any Slavic tribe or nation.

However, strong as it had grown to be, Serbia ’ s power ( as other early Slavic states ) was only as strong as its ruler.

However, just as in the case of the various Slavic languages — it can be shown that they originate from a single, Proto-Slavic language — it is also possible to establish some sort of Proto-Slavic Olympus and, through careful study of folklore, reconstruct some elements of this original pantheon, from which the various gods of the various Slavic tribes originated.

However, professional linguists and historians, particularly the specialists in ancient Slavic, question many features of its language — vocabulary ( modern or medieval Slavic words occasionally and unwittingly used in place of their ancient equivalents ), spelling, phonetics ( distinct reflections of the nasal vowels, both following Polish and Serbian patterns in different places, the haphazard handling of reduced vowels, etc., etc.

However, the name of Belobog is not mentioned by Helmold anyhere in his Chronica, nor is it ever mentioned in any of the historic sources that describe the gods of any Slavic tribe or nation.

However, most of contemporary scholars don't regard Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae as a reliable source on Slavic mythology and have doubts about existence of such deity in Slavic pantheon.

However, some scholars suppose that Dzydzilelya was a West Slavic analogue of Bulgarian Dodola, presumably the goddess of rain and fertility.

However, because of the importance of Jarilo to Slavic farmers and peasants as a deity of vegetation and harvest, Christianity never extinguished the worship of his cult.

However, the main character of this song does not bear the name Ivan, but rather Vid, in which one can easily recognise the name of Svetovid, a major Slavic god of war, prophecies and harvest.

" white-haired " However, even in this case, it cannot be determined with certainty whether the Romanian word derives from the presumed Dacian word or from its Old Slavic cognate belu ).