Editing Quadi (section)

===Allemanni, Lombards, and Bavarians and Slavs===
The alliance of Hunimund with the Allemanni has been interpreted as evidence of a new Alemannic-Suebi ethnogenesis in the second half of the 5th century, which could explain the documented use of the Suevi name to refer to the Alemanni after about 500.{{sfn|Reimitz|2000}}{{sfn|Castritius|2005|p=200}} 

Many of the Suevi who remained in the Pannonian region are believed to have taken up a Lombardic identity after the defeat of the Ostrogoths by the emperor [[Justinian]], and many may therefore have subsequently entered Italy with the Lombards.{{sfn|Castritius|2005|pp=201=202}} The region subsequently came under the control of the [[Pannonian Avars]], and it is probably during this period that [[Slavic languages]] eventually became dominant in the areas where the Quadi had lived.

The record which mentions the Suebi joining the Alemanni is also one of the first records mentioning the early [[Bavarians]], or [[Baiuvarii]], who were also living south of the Danube, to the east of the Alemanni, in what had been Roman territory. It is generally believed that their name is Germanic, and that it indicates an origin in the nearby regions to the east, which were once inhabited by the Boii. It is therefore considered very likely that the Baiuvarii included Marcomanni and Quadi.{{sfn|Hamann|1973}}