Talk:Teutons

message: Why does "Teutones" appear so often in this article? Can I reach the Teutones at 867-5309? Shall I ask for Jenny?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neuroglider (talk • contribs) 04:23, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling

message: Even from the quote only 300 in that given conflict, commited suicide...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.49.181.241 (talk) 03:37, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Please consult WP:OR. According to this source tattare is derived from Tatars. Consequently there should be no connection.--Berig 17:47, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I did some research on this, and I found that the connection between Tattare and Tatars is very dubious. The Tattare are a (despised) minority, and as such not well studied. They are associated with the Roma (gypsie) people, other times even with the Tatars, as you say, but also put apart as a seperate group of the Scandinavian wandering people. This being said, I have no special personal interest in the Wikipedia quality, and you can add/remove/modify articles as you like, I don't care. Db-inf 17:50, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem here is linguistic. The modern Swedish and Dutch forms of Teutonic are not Teuten or Tattare, but Tysk and Duits. Consequently, there is not even a connection name-wise between the Teuten and the Teutones.--Berig 21:00, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You seem to be very shure of the things you say, but other autors are more reserved about the origin and the commonness of the origins of the words Teuton and Deutsch. I suggest you do some research on this, or at least some reading. The current supposed ethymology of the word 'Teuton' in the Wikipedia article does not go beyond the level of the good willing village pastor with a hobby in local history. Db-inf 12:59, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Mass Suicides?!?!

message: I've cleaned up the text to make it clearer, more direct and concise. I commented out a passage at the end, written by someone who hadn't read the article: it needs to be integrated with the text. ---- Wetman (talk) 21:13, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Edited

message: Teuta- [hard "a"] - Tribe.  1. Germanic *theuda- [hard "a"], people, with derivative *theudiskaz, of the people, in Middle Dutch duutsch, German, of the Germans or Teutons:  DUTCH, PLATIDEUTSCH.  2.  Suffixed form *teut-onos [hard second "o"], "they of the tribe," in Germanic trival name *theudanoz [hard "o"], borrowed via Celtic into Latin as Teutoni [hard "o" and "i"], the Teutons:  TEUTON.  3.  Latin *totus [hard "o"], all, whole (?<"of the whole tribe"):  TEETOTUM, TOTAL, TUTTI; FACTOTUS.  [In Pok. teu- [hard "e"] 1080.]
Note:  linguistic convention - astericks indicate reconstructed form not attested in documents.  Tesseract501 16:05, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice original research but wrong.--Echosmoke (talk) 17:15, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Indo-European Roots for "Teuton"

message: I deleted this paragraph:
*The Teutons appear in the video game Medieval 2: Total War's "Kingdoms" expansion as a playable faction.
As a matter of fact the faction the writer meant was in fact the Order of the Teutonic Knights, not the Germanic tribe.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.32.212.189 (talk) 23:21, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  I deleted a paragraph 

message: In English, it usually refers to the Germans, another group entirely. I believe most recent scholarly sources refer to Teutones, not Teutons, and the Teutons page should probably be a dab page with Teutones to refer to the tribe best known as the Teutones. 173.66.211.53 (talk) 00:36, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Teutons" does not usually refer to the Teutones! 

message: "although the distinction between Celts and Teutons is not clearly realized by some earlier historians."
First, I can't figure out which "Teutons" the text refers to: the Teutones? the Germanic peoples generally [who may or may not include the Teutones]? hopefully not the modern Germans. Second, if this refers to the Teutones, then it assumes that they were not Celtic. Third, "not clearly realized by some earlier historians" is hard to make sense of. Is the whole thing saying that the earlier Roman historians didn't necessarily distinguish Celtic and Germanic peoples? And even when they did, that they didn't always do so in the same way modern historians would have done so? 173.66.211.53 (talk) 01:53, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a mess; the citation for Pomponius Mela and Ptolemy points to a Norse saga! I've removed this. Paul S (talk) 15:58, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh? Some of this text is a mess... 

message: Chances are better that the Teutons were ethnically celtic. Anti-Germanic historians just call them Germanic because it is beneficial for celtic people to say that the reason why the romans went to war with the celtic tribes of Europe and destroyed celts and enslaved them is because Germanic tribes sacked rome. Historians often lie to make the Celts look like they are nice people who never did anything wrong while assigning blame for everything that is considered bad to Germanic males.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.45.28.100 (talk) 16:10, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historians guess at their ethnicity