you can etymologically trace the european word teut from ancient egypt, the ojibwes, and aztec and mayans. in the aztec myths that were passed down by word of mouth, in ancient times, bearded white men came from the east and brought the gifts of civilization to their people. the ancient actually white hyper aryan global civilization is preserved partially in modern northern europeans (especially germanic and celtic and ancient greek paganism) and in etymologies and dna (especially old european white men dna, y-dna i1 and i2, the mound city and megalith builders in northern central and se europe).  ancient egyptian (pre-coptic) - twt/tut as in tutankhamun ancient aztec/mayan - teot, teteoh, teotl as in teotihuacan ancient north american indian - (western coastal tribes pnw and eastern objiwe) - dodem, totem, dod/tot as in totem pole indo-european (confirmed source) - teut/deut/deutsch/dutch/theod/deud/ duit (germanic, largest surviving source and most common denominator etymology), tuathe (celtic, lived with germanics and their cultures and gods merged), totus (italic/latin, also a brother people of celts and germanics originally), tuata (non-slavic baltic), teuta (illyrian, same male haplogroup as old european northern europeans and balkans, i2 and i1), teutous (phrygians), toda (iranic/persian/aryan), tude (kurdish), titous (ancient greek also later demos), tetane (albanian), tyti (pre-proto-slavic, later replaced/lost in common slavic when they called their former aryans brothers chuds/foreigners), tauti (sanskrit, not well attested).  it is massively overrepresented in the centum group of ie. which is also the oldest directly attested ie group known, directly attested to circa 2000-3000bc. the eastern indians in the southern appalachians also speak of the moon eyed peoples. a tall white, fair skinned, fair eyed race. like the elves of lotr.
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