Apart from that, there are a plethora of other theories, including obvious folk etymologies, linking the name e.g. to a Carpathian tribe called Biessi, mentioned by Ptolemy; a legendary bandit called Becz; the Beskids; and a west and south-west Slavic dialectal word meaning borough, attested e.g. as Beč/Беч in Serbo-Croatian, borrowed into Romani (Bech) and Hungarian (Bécs).