Tautvydas is a two-stemmed pre-Christian Lithuanian name: taut='tauta'="land, nation, kindred, tribe"tauta, Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė + vyd='vysti', vydėti, with the meaning "too see", as in "to understand".vysti, Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė The name Vytautas is combined from the same stems.K. A. GIRVILAS, PRE-CHRISTIAN NAME GIVING IN LITHUANIA, Lituanus,Volume 24, No.3 - Fall 1978 Notable people with the name include:
Tautvydas Eliošius, Lithuanian professional footballer Tautvydas Lydeka, Lithuanian former professional basketball player Tautvydas Pipiras, Lithuanian basketball player Tautvydas Šležas, Lithuanian basketball TV analyst and assistant coach Tautvydas Strolia, Lithuanian cross-country skier
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