Re: Taxonomy of supernatural beings

From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
> En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
> > BTW, according to my textbook on the world's religions, _Tiwaz_, _Tyr_
> > isn't
> > cognate of, _Dyaus_, _Zeus_, _Ju(-piter)_ etc, but of *_deiwos_,
> > _deus_,
> > _daeva_ etc. Any IEists around to clarify a bit?
>
> Strange, because Dyaus, Zeus and Ju(ppiter) *are* cognates of deus, daeva, and
> all come from PIE *deiwos. The case of "Juppiter" is extremely clear, since it
> comes from *deiwos-pHter (the H is one of the PIE laryngeals, but I can't
> remember its number. Anyway, it's the one that gave the short a in Latin
pater,
> and the short i in Sanskrit pitar): deus-pater. So the claim of your textbook
> is quite contradictory :)) .
The "father" word is *p2-te:r, with *H2.  (L *-te:r > -ter)

OK.

*deywos
    L deus and di:vus < OL deivos
    Ved. devá-
    Lith. die~vas
    Gmc. *Ti:waz
        > OE Ti:w
        > ON Ty:r

*dyew-
    L Iuppiter (*dyew-p2ter)
    L Iovis < OL Diovos (*dyewos)
    G Zeu= (*dyew)
    G Zeu/s (*dye:ws)
    Ved. dyá:us (*dye:ws)


Apparently *dyew- is the original root (meaning "God" = "Jove/Zeus"), and *deyw
was formed by adding the -e- to the zero grade *diw, and ending up with meaning
"god" = "etc."

    *Muke!
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