[In pl. Jutes, a mod. rendering of Bæda’s Jutæ and Juti, in OE. Eotas, Iótas, ? Iútan (gen. pl. Iútna), also Geátas; = Icel. Iótar people of Jutland on the mainland of Denmark.]
In pl. One of the three Low German tribes which, according to the account preserved by Bæda, invaded and settled in Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries; they are said to have occupied districts now included in Kent and Hampshire.
[c. 731. Bæda, Hist. Angl., I. xv. Advenerant autem de tribus Germaniæ populis fortioribus, id est Saxonibus, Anglis, Jutis. De Jutarum origine sunt Cantuari et Victuari.]
c. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., I. xv. (1890), 52. Comon hi of þrim folcum ðam strangestan Germanie, þæt [is] of Seaxum, of Angle, & of Geatum. Of Geata fruman syndon Cantware & Wihtsætan.
(Cf. O. E. Chron., an. 449. Of Ald Seaxum, of Anglum, of Iotum. Of Iotum comon Cantwara, and Wihtwara … & þæt cyn on West Sexum þe man nu ʓit hæt Iutna cynn.)
[c. 731. Bæda, H. A., IV. xvi. Fuga lapsi sunt de insula [Vecte] et in proximam Jutorum provinciam translati.]
c. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., IV. xvi[ii.] (1890), 308. Þa fluʓon þa cneohtas ut of [Wiht] þæm ealonde, & wæron ʓelædde in þa neahmæʓðe, seo is ʓeceʓd Eota lond.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), V. 265. Of þe Iutes com þe Kentiche men, and þe men of the yle of Wight.
1670. Milton, Hist. Eng., III. Wks. (1847), 507/2. The Saxons … and … two other tribes … Jutes and Angles.
1839. Penny Cycl., XIII. 167/2. The first Germanic invaders of Britain after the departure of the Romans were Jutes.
1874. Green, Short Hist., i. 1. To the north of the English [in Sleswick] lay the tribe of the Jutes, whose name is still preserved in their district of Jutland.
Jute, variant of JOUTE Obs., pottage.
