Английский Этимологический словарь - teutonic

- 1605, "of or pertaining to the Germanic languages and to peoples or tribes who speak or spoke them," from L. Teutonicus, from Teutones, from O.H.G. diot "people" (see Dutch), from *teuta, the common PIE word for "people" (cf. Lith. tauto, Osc. touto, O.Ir. tuath, Goth. юiuda, O.E. юeod). Used in anthropology to avoid the modern political association of German; in this broader sense Fr. uses germanique, Ger. germanisch, since neither uses its form of German for the narrower national meaning (Fr. allemand, Ger. deutsch). The Teutonic Knights (founded c.1191) were a military order of Ger. knights formed for service in the Holy Land, later crusading in Prussia and Lithuania.