The Sebbirozi was a tribe mentioned by the 9th-century
Bavarian Geographer The epithet "Bavarian Geographer" () is the conventional name for the anonymous author of a short Latin medieval text containing a list of the tribes in Central and Eastern Europe, headed .
The name "Bavarian Geographer" was first bestowed (in its ...
(). It states that the Sebbirozi inhabit 90 settlements (Sebbirozi habent civitates XC).
Linguist
Aleksander Brückner
Aleksander Brückner (; 29 January 1856 – 24 May 1939) was a Polish scholar of Slavic languages and literature (Slavistics), philologist, lexicographer, and historian of literature. He is among the most notable Slavicists of the late 19th ...
related ''Sebbirozi'' with another tribe from the source, ''
Zabrozi'', deriving from Proto-Polish ''*sebr'' (
Old Polish
The Old Polish language () was a period in the history of the Polish language between the 10th and the 16th centuries. It was followed by the Middle Polish language.
The sources for the study of the Old Polish language are the data of the co ...
''siebr'' and ''siabr'', or ''szabr''), transcribing to what he believed as true names ''*sebracy'' and ''*siabracy''.
Historian
Henryk Łowmiański and linguist
Stanisław Rospond
Stanisław Rospond (December 19, 1906 – October 16, 1982) was a Polish linguist, and professor at the University of Wroclaw.
References
* Jan Miodek, ''Stanisław Rospond'', :''Odpowiednie dać rzeczy słowo'', Wrocław 1987 (za ).
* Bogdan S ...
connected the ethnonym to the
Severians
The Severians, also Severyans, Siverians, or Siverianians (; ; ; ) were a tribe or tribal confederation of early East Slavs occupying areas to the east of the middle Dnieper River and southeast of the Danube River. They are mentioned by the Bav ...
,
while the others to the
Sabirs.
More recently, Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak also treats the Sebbirozi as one of the five Turkic tribes from the source, precisely the Sabirs.
Already in 1958 Łowmiański considered etymological and geographical relation between the ''Sebbirozi'', ''Attorozi'', ''Uuillerozi'', ''Zabrozi'', ''Chozirozi'' due to unusual non-Slavic, yet Turkic suffix ''-rozi''. The ''Attorozi'' themselves are described as ''populus ferocissimus''.
References
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Ancient Slavic peoples