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Name Tyr

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About the name Tyr in particular

Gender:	male
Languages of use:	Scandinavian
Topics:	Asteroid 4092 Tyr, discovered 1986
Popularity:	no rank in any popularity list in this database
Similarly written:	Tyr, Tor, Ty, Tyra Details

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About Tyr, the group of names with the same origin as Tyr

Language of origin:	Old Norse
Info about origin:	in Nordic/Germanic mythology Tyr is the good of war
	a name variant is Old English Tiw, which is behind the word Tuesday
	the original Germanic form (god of the sky Tiwaz or Teiwaz) has Indoeuropean roots related to the roots of Zeus and Jupiter
Words:	deiwo = the light, the daylight, the deity Indoeuropean
Topics:	Germanic mythology
Somehow related to:	Jupiter, Zeus
Name variants:	Teiwaz, Tiu, Tiw, Tiwaz, Tyr, Tyr, Ziu Sortable list Details