"heavenly, divine, anything of excellence", and devi, female title meaning "goddess"; Avestan: daēva (𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀, daēuua), a term for "demons" in Zoroastrianism, as a result of a religious reformation that degraded the status of prior deities, Old Persian: daiva meaning "false deities, demons", Balto-Slavic: *deiwas, Baltic: *deivas, Lithuanian: Diēvas (Old Lithuanian deivas), Old Prussian: Dìews (or Deywis), Latvian: Dievs, supreme god of the sky; and the Baltic Dievaitis ("Little God" or "Prince"), a name used to refer to the Thunder God Perkūnas, or to the Moon God Mėnuo. Germanic: *tīwaz (pl. *tīwōz), a word for "god", although specifically associated with a Germanic god whose name was supplanted by the title "God", *Tīwaz, Old Norse: Týr, associated with justice; the plural tívar survived as a poetic word for 'the gods', and týr appears in kennings for Odin and Thor, such as in the Odin's names Sigtýr ("victory-god"), Gautatýr ("god of the Geats"), Fimbultýr ("powerful god"), or Hertýr ("army-god"), Old English: Tīw (or Tīg), Old High German: Zio (or *Ziu), a god, Gothic: *Teiws, and the associated rune ᛏ (Tyz), The word 'Tuesday' in ON Týs-dagr, OE Tīwes-dæg and OHG Zies-tag, a calque of Latin dies Martis; interpreted as a remnant of the sky and war functions of *Tīwaz by G. Kroonen, although M. L. West views it as unlikely, Italic: *deiwos, a "god, a deity", Old Latin: (), the "gods", Latin: , common name for a "god, a deity"; and Dea ("goddess"), a title assigned to various Roman goddesses like Dea Tacita, Bona Dea or Dea Dia ("Goddess of the Daylight" or "Bright Goddess"). Vulgar Latin: Deus, the god of Christianity in the Vetus Latina and the Vulgate, Oscan: deivas, Venetic: deivos, "gods", Volscian: deue Decluna, attested in an inscription from Velitrae, possibly from the 3rd century BC. Celtic: *dēwos, a "god, a deity", and *dago-dēwos, the "good god", old name of the Dagda, Celtiberian: , a "god", Gaulish: , a "god", Gaulish: Devona (/deuona/) or Divona (//), a deity of sacred waters, springs, and rivers whose name means "Divine", Old Welsh: Dubr Duiu ("Water of the Divinity"), evolving into Mod. Welsh Dyfrdwy (River Dee, Wales). The form deva, diva ("goddess") likewise appears in Celtic river names throughout Western Europe, such as in the Scottish rivers Dēoúa (modern-day Dee, Galloway), and Dēouana (Δηουανα; modern-day Don, Aberdeenshire), Old Irish: día, a "god", and An Dag-da, the druid-god of wisdom, Irish: Dhe ("god"), attested