Re: [tied] Tribe, part 1

At 12:39:21 PM on Friday, September 9, 2005, A. wrote:

> A quick and hopefully simple question.

> I believe I have read that Gallic Teutates, Insular Tuatha
> (de Danaan), and Germanic Teutons all stem from a shared
> root that means something akin to the word "tribe"; is
> this correct?

> Would anyone be able to give me the archaic forms of this
> word, such as the old and proto Germanic forms, as well as
> early Celtic?

PGmc *þeudo: 'people, tribe'. I believe that the Common
Celtic would have been *teuta:. (At least that's consistent
with OIr <túath>.)

Brian