Re: Taxonomy of supernatural beings
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 18:25 |
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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 :)) .
Christophe.
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