TÍVI

a, m., also spelt with f; mostly only used in pl. tívar; a dat. sing. tíva occurs in Haustl. 8; fróðgum tíva (thus Ób., the Kb. has tífi, a less correct form): a gen. sing. tíva, Vsp., in valtíva; [this old word is identical in root with Lat. divus; Sansk. devas; Gr. Διός (Ζεύς); cp. also Týr]:—a god, divinity; þriggja tíva, Haustl. 1; tormiðladr tívum, 3; tíva rök, Vþm. 42; Álfheim Frey gáfu tívar at tannfé, Gm. 5; ríkir tívar, Þkv. 14; mærir tífar, Hým. 4; sig-tívar (q. v.), gods of victory, Ls. 1, 2, Vsp., Gm., Fm., Akv. 29 (Bugge); val-tívar, the gods of the slain, Vsp. 50 (Bugge); sæki-tívar, the martial gods, Landn. (in a verse); kykvir tívar, living beings, applied to men, Ó. H. (in a verse of the Christian time), all the other references being heathen.