Given name
Týrur
“Týr, Tiw”
Týrur is a masculine given name from Old Norse (ultimately Proto-Indo-European), meaning “Týr, Tiw.” It is used in Faroese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Týrur comes from Old Norse, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Norse Týr (“Týr, Tiw”), from Proto-Germanic *Tīwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós; its root is Proto-Indo-European *dyew-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Týrur’s family of names
In Faroese usage, Týrur shares a linguistic root with the Norwegian Nynorsk form Ty.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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