, Old High German diota, Middle High German diet, Old Norse
þióð, Gothic þiuda < Old Germanic *þeuđô, by Verner's Law <
Indo-European *teut- feminine; compare Lithuanian tautà, Old
Irish túath, Oscan touto, Sabine touta people. Old English þíod,
þéod = Old Saxon thioda, thiod, Old Frisian thiade(The character
coming out is probably meant to be ā́, I should think. The
online OED3 is still having a lot of encoding problems.) There
are possibly some even more savory cognates to be added to the
OED etymology— such as Latin tōtus, "the whole of, all," if
originally *"all of the tribe". This derivation is suggested by
the that fact that although Oscan has touto and Sabine touta,
"people," a cognate is missing in their sister Italic language
Latin, unless it be tōtus. Even more interesting as possible
cognates are Hittite tuzzi "army; camp" and Lycian tuta "army."
However, Benveniste in particular rejected the association of
the family of thede with the Anatolian forms, but other authors
have accepted it. If consens