Vagoth

The Vagoth (latinised Vagothae) were a Germanic tribe mentioned by Jordanes as living in Scandza.

Karl Zeuss thought Vagoth to be a misspelling of Vagos and connected them to the Vagar who later appeared in the Dovrefjell of Norway.

He proposed *Augothi or *Avigothi (Norse *Eygutar) and placed them in Öland.

[1] According to Lithuanian linguist Kazimieras Būga,[2] the Vagoths have given name to Germans and Germany in Lithuanian and Latvian languages (vokietis, vācietis and Vokietija, Vācija), and to Gotland in Finnish and Estonian (Vuojonmaa, Ojamaa “maa” = land).

The name for Germanics may mean approximately "neighbors who speak an incomprehensible language", and be derived from wekʷ, a proto-Indo-European root meaning to speak or to sound, which makes Būga's explanation less attractive.