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Tíw

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Tíw, Tíg, Tí, es; m.
the god Tiw, a Teutonic deity to whom amongst the Latin gods Mars most nearly corresponded
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  • Tiig

    Mars, Martis,

    • Txts. 77, 1293
      • .

  • Tíg,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 55, 56.

  • Tuu (Tíw?),

    • 58, 40.

  • Ðone Syxtum nédde Decius se cásere Tíges (Martis) deófolgylde,

    • Shrn. 114, 9.
The word occurs oftenest in the connection in which it remains—in the name of one of the days
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  • On Tíwes-dæg

    tertia feria,

    • R. Ben. 38, 6;
    • R. Ben. Interl. 49, 14
      • :
    • Wulfst. 180, 25.

  • On Tíwes-niht,

    • Lchdm. iii. 146, 23.
one form of the name of the Runic T; Ti is given as the name of the symbol ᛏ in some alphabets, see
  • Kemble on Anglo-Saxon Runes in Archæologia, vol. 28, pp. 338, 339.
The word is probably to be recognized in the form tyz, which is given as the name of the Gothic T in the Vienna MS. containing a Gothic alphabet, and from it a Gothic Tius may be inferred.
O. H. Ger. Ziu(-o) the name of a god (preserved in M. H. Ger. Zies-tag), the name of a letter
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Icel. Týr the name of a god (kept in Týs-dagr), name of a rune.See Grmm. D. M. c. ix.]
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v. Tír.
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v.  Tíg Tuu.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “Tíw.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/30586.

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