Jute

From Latin plural Iuti, Iutae (in Bede), from Old English Ēotas. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *eut, from Proto-Germanic *eutaz, *eutaniz. The spelling was later influenced by Medieval Latin Jutae, Juti.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒuːt/, /juːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt
• Homophones: jute, ute

Jute (plural Jutes)

1. A member of the Germanic tribe that existed in modern-day Denmark that invaded England about the same time as the Angles and the Saxons in the beginning of the Middle Ages, but were eventually integrated by the time of the Norman Conquest.
   • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 40:

     No Jute is left to wield a sword to save this hoard. No one is left to swing the battle-ax skyward.

• Jutic
• Jutish

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Jute”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

19th-century borrowing from English jute with a spelling pronunciation. Eventually from Sanskrit जूट (jūṭa, “twisted hair”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːtə/
• Hyphenation: Ju‧te

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Jute f (genitive Jute, no plural)

1. jute

• Jutebeutel
• Juteleinwand
• juten
• Jutesack
• Jutetasche

• “Jute” in Duden online
• “Jute” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache