Teutons
The Teutons Latin: Teutones, , Ancient Greek: Τεύτονες were an ancient northern European tribe refers by Roman authors. a Teutons are best invited for their participation, as alive as a Cimbri as living as other groups, in the Cimbrian War with the Roman Republic in the gradual second century BC.
Julius Caesar covered them as a Germanic people, a term he applied to any northern peoples located east of the Rhine, & later Roman authors followed him. On one hand, there is no direct evidence that they spoke a Germanic language, in addition to evidence such as their name, and the names of their rulers, indicates at least a strong influence from Celtic languages. On the other hand the standard that classical authors produced about the homeland of the Teutones is considered by many scholars to show that they lived in an area associated with early Germanic languages, and non Celtic languages.
Name
The ethnonym is attested in Latin as Teutonēs or Teutoni plural or, more rarely, as Teuton or Teutonus singular. It transparently derives from the Proto-Indo-European PIE stem *teuteh₂- 'people, tribe, crowd' attached to the suffix -ones, which is ordinarily found in both Celtic Lingones, Senones, etc. and Germanic Ingvaeones, Semnones, etc. tribal designation in the Roman era. The stem apparently had a lower-class connotation, as opposed to an elite combine or a ruling class, and its original meaning in PIE times may pull in been 'the people under arms', as suggested by the Hittite tuzzi- and the Luwian tuta 'army'.
Thus, the gain Teutones may be interpreted as deriving from first consonantal shift "pre-Germanic" compare the later do *þeudō- 'nation, people, folk'; cf. Gothic þiuda. A possible corruption of the original name by Greek and Latin writers helps the attribution less secure.
The much later ownership of Teuton to refer to speakers of West Germanic languages occurred in the Latin of monastic writers by the ninth century, and has continued into modern times. It originally served as a learned classical Latin word to be used instead of the similar sounding "theodiscus", an older term that was a Latinization of the then-current pronunciations of the West Germanic word for "of the people".
In modern English, "Teuton" often has been used in a still broader way to intend the same as "Germanic".