Tautvydas

Tautvydas is a two-stemmed pre-Christian Lithuanian name: taut='tauta'="land, nation, kindred, tribe" + vyd='vysti', vydėti, with the meaning "too see", as in "to understand". The name Vytautas is combined from the same stems. Notable people with the name include:

See also

References

  1. ↑ tauta, Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė
  2. ↑ vysti, Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė
  3. ↑ K. A. GIRVILAS, PRE-CHRISTIAN NAME GIVING IN LITHUANIA, Lituanus,Volume 24, No.3 - Fall 1978