What is "tiu"

Tiu is a proper name that has these meanings:

• Tiu (pharaoh) (4th millennium BC), the first (predynastic) Pharaoh of Lower Egypt
• Týr, as the Old English name for the Sky-God of Norse (Germanic) Mythology
• Tiu, the Babylonian fiend of headache
• Ţiu, a village in Cernăteşti Commune, Dolj County, Romania
• The Filipino version of the Chinese surname Zhang
• Chris Tiu, a Filipino basketball player

As an abbreviation:

• TiU can be Tilburg University
• TIU can be Trinity International University

Tiu, also known as Teyew, is mentioned in the Palermo Stone as a Predynastic Egyptian king who ruled in the Lower Egypt. As there is no other evidence of such ruler, he may be a mythical king preserved through oral tradition, or may even be completely fictitious.