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Wow. I knew several were lingering tribal names, from before Germany was really A Thing, but leave it to the Polish to straight-up call them barbarians.
If I recall historia correctly the "of the people" root can be traced back to Christian missionaries and clergimen of medieval times who needed to translate religious teachings from latin to the common tongue.