From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 10534
Date: 2001-10-22
>and
> > I agree with the current theory of *Dyuas for the most part. I
> simply
> > disagree that the Germanic Tyr was the original *Dyuas (*Tiwaz)
> displaced by
> > a younger god local named Odin. The evidence for that is weak,
> the logicproblems
> > unsound.
> >
>
> I still have yet to see anybody address here the linguistic
> that exist in seeing Tyr as the equivalent of *Dyeus (as many oftenthe
> claim). As I have mentioned, Tyr should go back to a Germanic form
> *Tiwaz, allegedly from PIE *deiwos "god" (literally "shining one"),
> which is not the same as *Dyeus "sky" (even though they are from
> same root *dei- "shine").I thought *deiwos and *dyeus were both related (< *d-y-w-)? I'm
> Is it possible that Tyr is actually from *Dyeus after all, and not
> from *deiwos? How do we analyze the Roman Dius, a divinity that
> allegedly has affinities with Tyr (connection with law/contracts, a
> bound hand compared to Tyr's missing hand).
>
> - Chris Gwinn