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Re: Missing the sky

From:Joe Hill <joe@...>
Date:Thursday, March 7, 2002, 16:43
> Yep! The word *dyew- (or is it *dhyew-? I can't remember exactly) refers
only
> to day-sky (and this word later gave "deus" in Latin: "god"). I don't know
what
> the word for night-sky was. And though reconstruction of meanings may be a > tricky thing, IEologists seem quite sure of this meaning. >
As far as I remember..*djeu/*dyeu was the Sky God, commonly known as Jove. Ok, I've just looked it up in the PIE roots index. *djeu-onom (-onom is the infinitive suffix) is 'to shine' '*djeu-' the noun, means the Sky God, or alternatively, the sky.

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Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>