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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a Germanic people who invaded Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries AD and settled in the south and southeast and on the Isle of Wight.

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  • noun A member of the Germanic tribe that existed in modern-day Denmark that invaded England about the same time as the Angles and the Saxons in the beginning of the Middle Ages, but were eventually either consumed culturally or driven out of the island.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Middle English Jutes, the Jutes, from Medieval Latin Iutae, from Old English Iotas, Iutan; akin to Old English Gēat, Geat.]

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From Latin plural Jutae, Juti (in Bede), corresponding to Old English Ēotas, Īotas. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *eutaz.

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