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CHAPTER IX.
ZIO, (TIW, TYR).
The ON. name for dies Martis, Tysdagr, has the name of the
Eddie god Tyr (gen. Tys, ace. T$) to account for it. The AS.
Tiwesdseg and OHG. Ziestac scarcely have the simple name of the
god left to keep them company, but it may be safely inferred from
them : it must have been in AS. Tiw} in OHG. Zio. The runic
letter Ti, Ziu, will be discussed further on. The Gothic name for the
day of the week is nowhere to be found ; according to all analogy
it would be Tivisdags, and then the god himself can only have been
called Tins. These forms, Tiu-s, Tiw, Ty-r, Zio make a series like
the similar J?iu-s, J^eow (}>iw), ]?y-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, clyaus (coelum) stands the closest
to the Greek and German gods names Zeu?, Tins.
GREEK.
Zev
A I Fa, A [a
AiFL Ait
GOTHIC,
Tius
Tiu
Tiu
Tivis
Tiva
To the digammated arid older form of the Greek oblique cases
lere corresponds also the Latin Jovem, Jovis, Jovi, for which we
1 It might have been Teow, from the analogy of ]?eow to Kr. Lye quotes
without references :
Tiig, Mars, Tiiges- vel Tiis-daeg, dies Martis. The Epinal
glosses brought to light by Mone actually furnish, no. 520 (Anzeiger 1838, p.
14o), 2 ^^g, Mars ; also Oehler p. 35 1 . The change of letters is like that of briiff,
.jusciilum, for briw ; and we may at least infer from it, that the vowel is long,
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