Venedi

I've come across suggestions that demonyms like Venedi, Veneti, Wends etc. originally denoted the speakers of a separate, long extinct, IE branch in what is now the Western Slavic countries and Eastern Germany. There are some passages in the works of the early geographers that might be interpreted that way, and the "urheimats" I've seen assigned to Germanic, Slavic, and Baltic seem to leave this area void. Is there any research into toponyms, phonology, or whatever, indicating a common substratum in these areas?

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Trond Engen
- introducing wendy to Neverland
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