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Tautvydas

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Tautvydas is a two-stemmed pre-Christian Lithuanian name: taut='tauta'="land, nation, kindred, tribe"[1] + vyd='vysti', vydėti, with the meaning "too see", as in "to understand".[2] The name Vytautas is combined from the same stems.[3] Notable people with the name include:

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  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