Tiu

• Tew (rare), Tiw, Tue (rare)

Learned borrowing from Old English Tīw, from Proto-West Germanic *Tīw, from Proto-Germanic *Tīwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (“god”). Doublet of Tuesday and Tyr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːuː/
• Rhymes: -iːuː

Tiu

1. (Anglo-Saxon god) The ancient Germanic god of war and the sky, identified with Tyr of Norse mythology.

• Tuesday

• “Tiu”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Tiu”, in Collins English Dictionary.

• I-tu, ITU, TUI, UTI, tui

Borrowed from Hokkien 張 / 张 (Tiuⁿ). Doublet of Zhang and Tio. Compare Malaysian & Singaporean English Teo / Teoh.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtju/ [ˈt͡ʃu]
    • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˈtju/ [ˈt̪ju]
    • Rhymes: -u
    • Syllabification: Ti‧u
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtiw/ [ˈt̪ɪʊ̯ː]
    • Rhymes: -iw
    • Syllabification: Tiu

Tiu (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜌᜓ)

1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Tiu is the 101st most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 56,132 individuals.