Ziu (Old High German)

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Ziu (Old High German) is a Germanic god of war and the sky, linguistically related to the Norse deity Tyr and ultimately to the Proto-Indo-European sky-father.

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Label Occurrences
Ziu (Old High German) canonical 1

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Germanic deity
sky deity
war deity
associatedConcept sky-father archetype
attestedIn Old High German glosses
medieval German texts
cognateWith Latin deus
Týr
Tīw
culture Old High German
dayOfWeekAssociation Tuesday
dayOfWeekCognate Old English Tīw
surface form: Old English Tīwesdæg

Old Norse language
surface form: Old Norse Týsdagr
domain sky
war
equivalentDeity Mars (interpretatio romana)
Tyr
surface form: Tyr (Norse deity)

Týr
Týr
surface form: Tīw (Old English)
etymologicallyRelatedTo Jupiter
Proto-Indo-European *Dyēus ph₂tḗr
Zeus
function guarantor of oaths
protector of warriors
upholder of law and order
gender male
laterStatus partly overshadowed by Wodan (Odin)
linguisticOrigin Proto-Germanic *Tīwaz
mythologicalRole early chief god in some Germanic traditions
nameMeaning god
nameVariant Zio
Ziu
surface form: Ziuu
pantheon Continental Germanic gods
religion Germanic paganism
scholarlyTopic comparative Indo-European mythology
historical linguistics of Germanic theonyms
semanticField sky and daylight
warfare

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Tyr nameCognateWith Ziu (Old High German)