Editing Visigoths (section)

===Etymology of Tervingi and Vesi/Visigothi===
The name ''Tervingi'' may mean "forest people", with the first part of the name related to Gothic ''triu'', and English "tree".{{sfn|Wolfram|1988|p=25}} This is supported by evidence that geographic descriptors were commonly used to distinguish people living north of the [[Black Sea]] both before and after Gothic settlement there, by evidence of forest-related names among the Tervingi, and by the lack of evidence for an earlier date for the name pair Tervingi–Greuthungi than the late third century.{{sfn|Wolfram|1988|pp=387–388, fn58}} That the name ''Tervingi'' has pre-Pontic, possibly Scandinavian, origins still has support today.{{sfn|Wolfram|1988|p=387, fn58}}

The Visigoths are called ''Wesi'' or ''Wisi'' by [[Trebellius Pollio]], Claudian and Sidonius Apollinaris.{{sfn|Stevenson|1899|p=36, fn15}} The word is [[Gothic language|Gothic]] for "good", implying the "good or worthy people",{{sfn|Wolfram|1988|p=25}} related to Gothic ''iusiza'' "better" and a reflex of [[Proto-Indo-European language|Indo-European]] *''wesu'' "good", akin to [[Welsh language|Welsh]] ''gwiw'' "excellent", [[Ancient Greek language|Greek]] ''eus'' "good", [[Sanskrit]] ''vásu-ş'' "id.". Jordanes relates the tribe's name to a river, though this is probably a [[folk etymology]] or legend like his similar story about the Greuthung name.{{sfn|Wolfram|1988|p=387, fn58}}