Editing Lombards (section)

==Name==
According to their traditions, the Lombards initially called themselves the ''Winnili''. After a reported major victory against the [[Vandals]] in the first century, they changed their name to ''Lombards''.{{sfn|Christie|1995|p=3}} The name ''Winnili'' is generally translated as 'the wolves', related to the Proto-Germanic root ''*wulfaz'' 'wolf'.''<ref>{{cite journal|last=Sergent |first=Bernard |author-link=Bernard Sergent |date=1991 |title=Ethnozoonymes indo-européens |language=fr |trans-title=Indo-European ethnozoonyms |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/dha_0755-7256_1991_num_17_2_1932 |journal=Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=15 |doi=10.3406/dha.1991.1932}}</ref>'' The name ''[[:wiktionary:Lombard|Lombard]]'' was reportedly derived from the distinctively long beards of the Lombards.{{sfn|Christie|2018b|pp=920-922}} It is probably a compound of the [[Proto-Germanic language|Proto-Germanic]] elements [[:wiktionary:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/langaz|*''langaz'']] (long) and [[:wiktionary:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bardaz|*''bardaz'']] (beard).