Old English · proper noun
Tiw
Normalised Tīw
- Part of speech
- proper noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /tiːw/
- Syllables
- tiːw (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- tiwtyr
Tiw1 · proper noun · masculine
Senses
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Tiw, the Anglo-Saxon name for Tyr
Declension · strong a-stem
Tiw2 · noun · masculine
Senses
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the runic character (/t/)
biþ tācna sum...
Tiw is some kind of token...
The Old English rune poem
All forms (3)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *Tīw, from Proto-Germanic *Tīwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (“god”). Proto-Germanic cognate with Old Norse Týr, Old Frisian Tii, Old High German Ziu, Gothic * (*teiws). Proto-Indo-European cognate with Latin deus, Luwian (tiwaz), Lithuanian diẽvas, Sanskrit देव (devá), and Classical Persian دیوْ (dēw).
Descendants
tiw
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