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Origin of the name TIW.
Etymology of the
name TIW.
Meaning of the baby name TIW.
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TIW.
This is the name of the Eddic god from which the Teutonic race seem to
have taken their name, meaning "thunder." It is the same
in Anglo-Saxon. In Old High German it is Zio.
In Gothic, it would have been Tius.
These forms, Tiu-s, Tiw, Tŷ-r,
Zio make a series like the similar þiu-s, þeow (þiw), þŷ-r, dio = puer,
servus.
If the idea of our thundergod had somewhat narrow
limits, that of Zio lands us in a measureless expanse. The
non-Teutonic cognate [Aryan] languages confront us with a
multitude of terms belonging to the root div, which, while enabling us
to make up a fuller formula div, tiv, zio, yield the meanings
"brightness, sky, day, god". Of Sanskrit words, dyaus (coelum)
stands the closest to the Greek and German gods' names Ζεύς,
Tius. (Teutonic Mythology,
Grimm-Stallybrass, 1882). Also see Þorr,
and Tŷr.
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