North German and Dutch: reduced form of the personal name
Thietilo, an early medieval pet form of Dietrich
(German), Diederik (Dutch), or from some other compound name
with the same first element.
Eastern German: from a short form of
Sorbian Bartyl, from the personal name Bartholomäus
(see Bartholomew).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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