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öɲԻܲԲ
/ ˈڲձəԻəʊŋ /
noun
- the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
Word History and Origins
Origin of öɲԻܲԲ1
Example Sentences
Merkel’s critics no longer speak about Einwanderung, immigration, but öɲԻܲԲ, a reference to the mass migrations of antiquity that implies hordes of nomads in furs and horned helmets.
The images seem like a 21st-century version of the öɲԻܲԲ, the migration of nations in the late Roman and early Medieval periods.
The result was that the prudent Germans, who loved light taxes and cheap hard wood lands, turned toward Wisconsin,—another öɲԻܲԲ.
All headed down this way; regular Volkerwanderung.
One thing only seems clear, and on this point we may hope for some light from the data of philology, namely that the migration was long subsequent to the original Volkerwanderung; for this must have preceded the rise of phratry names, which again must have preceded the migration of which the segmentation of groups, evidenced by the names themselves, is at present, and in default of the aid of philology, our only proof.
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