- teu-2
- teu-2English meaning: to listen to, observeDeutsche Übersetzung: “in freudlichem Sinne die Aufmerksamkeit zuwenden, aufmerken”Material: Lat. tueor, -ērī, tuitus and tūtütus sum “betrachten, observe, shield “, intu(e)or “consider”, originally in-, ob-, con-tuor con-tuō; tūtus “certainly”; O.Ir. cumtūth “ protection”(*kom-ud-tou̯itus), M.Welsh tuð “cover”, tuðed “Hũlle, dress”, Bret. dial. tuec (O.Bret. *tuðoc) “Kissenbezug”; O.Ir. tūas-cert “nördlich”, Bret. tus “links” (*teu-sto-); Celt. *teu-to- in M.Welshtut “ magician “, M.Ir. tūathaid ds., O.Ir. tūaith “nördlich”, M.Ir. tūath “links, nördlich, mad, wicked, evil” (from “*gũnstig, good” as Antiphrasis zur Bezeichnung the unglũckbringenden Linken); in addition Goth. ÞiuÞ “das Gute”, O.Ice. Þȳ ðr “mild, friendly”, Þȳ ða “ friendship”, O.E. geðīede “good, tugendhaft”, geðīedan ‘sich (friendly) anschließen”; probably also O.E. ðēaw “ custom, custom”, O.S. thau, O.H.G.gethau “Disziplin” as “*observantia”; perhaps also Gk. τύσσει ἱκετεύει Hes. (denominative eines *τυτός with similar meaning as Goth. ÞiuÞjan ‘segnen” from ÞiuÞ).References: WP. I 705 f., WH. II 713 f., Loth RC 43, 160 ff.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.