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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Mythology A Norse god of war, son of Odin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In Northern myth., the god of war and victory, son of Odin. He is the same as the Anglo-Saxon Tiw.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Norse mythology The Norse god of war, identifiable with Tiu or Tiw. Possibly the god after whom Tuesday was named.
  2. abbr. biochemistry IUPAC 3-letter abbreviation of tyrosine

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (Norse mythology) god of war and strife and son of Odin; identified with Anglo-Saxon Tiu

Etymologies

  1. Old Norse Týr, from Proto-Germanic *Tīwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dhyeu- (“god”). Cognate to Old English Tīw. (Wiktionary)
  2. Old Norse Tȳr. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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