A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Teutonick, adj. (n.). [17th c. Eng. Teutonic (1631), L. Teutonicus.] Of or pertaining to the Germanic languages. Also absol. as noun. —a1688 Wallace Orkney (1700) 106.
Many of the inhabitants use the Norns; which has yet the greatest affinity with the old Gothic language, not much differing from the Teutonick, which is supposed to be the language the Pights used —a1688 Wallace Orkney 7.
Most of these names end in A, or Ey, which in the Teutonick tongue, signifieth watter, to shew that these isles are peices of land surrounded with water
