teutā-

Tribe.

1.

a. Dutch, from Middle Dutch duutsch, German, of the Germans or Teutons;

b. Plattdeutsch, from Old High German diutisc, of the people. Both a and b from Germanic *theudiskaz, of the people, derivative of *theudō, people.

2. Suffixed form *teut-onōs, “they of the tribe.” Teuton, from Latin Teutōnī, the Teutons, borrowed via Celtic from Germanic tribal name *theudanōz.

3. Possibly Latin tōtus, all, whole (? < “of the whole tribe”): total, tutti; factotum, teetotum.

 

[In Pokorny tēu- 1080.]

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