Wolfram Brandes and Helmut Castritius, and this conclusion has begun to gain more acceptance, including Walter Pohl and Peter Heather. The reasoning is based on upon the facts that the Suda describes Odoacer's brother Onoulphus as a Thuringian on his father's side and Scirian on his mother's. The Thuringian identity of Odoacer's father is denied in the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. Hyun Jin Kim thinks the Suda contains a hypercorrection by a scribe who did not recognise the Turcilingi. Jordanes refers to both peoples. Kim argues that they were "a Turkic-speaking tribe under Hunnic rule ... probably of mixed origin ... with possibly a Germanic and Turkic (Hunnic) mixture." Cahen, too, argued they were Turkic-speaking Huns. Etymology The problem of identification is related to the problem of etymology. Both are related to the question whether the Turcilingi were Germanic or not. The root Turci- has led some scholars to suggest that they were a Turkic-speaking tribe. The -ling suffix is Germanic, denoting members of a line, usually one descended from a common ancestor. Kim believes the name is a Germanization of Turkic name. References Sources Cahen, Claude (1973). "Frédegaire et les Turcs". In Économies et sociétés au Moyen Âge: mélanges offerts à Édouard Perroy. Paris, pp. 24–27. Goffart, Walter A. (1980). Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418–584: The Techniques of Accommodation. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. . Jordanes. The Origins and Deeds of the Goths. Charles C. Mierow, trans. Last modified 22 April 1997. McBain, Bruce (1983). "Odovacer the Hun?" Classical Philology, 78:4 (Oct.), pp. 323–327. MacGeorge, Penny (2002). Late Roman Warlords. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . Paul the Deacon (1907). Historia LangobardorumIV.xlii William Dudley Foulke, trans. Ancient peoples of Europe Iron Age peoples of Europe Migration Period