Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/dyew-

This entry contains Proto-Indo-European reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European

Root

*dyew-

1. sky, heaven

Derived terms

• *deywós
• *diwyós

Related terms

• *déi-no-
• *diwoh₁

Descendants

• Albanian: gdhinj
• Anatolian:
  • Hittite: 𒅆𒍑 (sius)
• Armenian:
  • Old Armenian: տիւ (tiw) (< *diwoh₁)
    • Armenian: տիվ (tiv)
• Balto-Slavic: (from *déi-no-)
  • Baltic:
    • Latvian: diena
    • Lithuanian: diena
    • Old Prussian: dēinā
    • Samogitian: dėina
  • Slavic: *dьnь
    • Old Church Slavonic:

      Cyrillic: дьнь (dĭnĭ)

    • East Slavic:
      • Belarusian: дзень (dzen')
      • Russian: день (den')
      • Ukrainian: день (den')
    • South Slavic:
      • Bulgarian: ден (den)
      • Macedonian: ден (den)
      • Serbo-Croatian:

        Cyrillic: дан

        Roman: dan

      • Slovene: dan
    • West Slavic:
      • Czech: den
      • Polish: dzień
      • Slovak: deň
• Celtic: *dīyo-, *dījos
  • Breton: deiz
  • Cornish: dedh
  • Old Irish: día
  • Old Welsh: did
    • Welsh: dydd
• Germanic: *tīnaz
  • Gothic: sinteins
  • Old English: lencten
    • English: Lent
• Hellenic:
  • Ancient Greek: Ζεύς (Zeús), Ζεῦ πάτερ (Zeu pater) ("o father Zeus") (from Dyēus ph₂ter)
    • English: Zeus (borrowed)
    • Greek: Ζευς (Zefs), Δίας (Días)
• Indo-Iranian:
  • Sanskrit: द्यु (dyú), दिव (diváḥ) ("sky, heaven"), दयो (dyoḥ) ("heaven"), दिन (diná) ("day") (< *déi-no-)
  • Sanskrit: द्यौष्पितृ (dyauṣ-pitṛ) (from Dyēus ph₂ter)
    • Telugu: దినము (dinamu)
    • English: Dyaus Pita (borrowed)
• Italic: *dyew-patēr (from Dyēus ph₂ter), *diespater
  • Latin: Iuppiter (stem Iov-), cf. Iovis, Iovēs (see also the derived diēs Iovis ("Thursday"))
    • English: Jupiter (borrowed), Jove (borrowed)
  • Oscan: diúveí
  • Picene: iuve
  • Umbrian: 𐌈𐌖𐌐𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌓 (iupater)
  • Latin: diēs ("day") (probably pronounced *di-ēus earlier)
    • Aromanian: dzuã
    • Asturian: día
    • Campidanese Sardinian: dí
    • Catalan: dia
    • Dalmatian: dai
    • Friulian: dì
    • Galician: día
    • Istro-Romanian: zi
    • Italian: dì
    • Lombard: dì
    • Megleno-Romanian: zuu̯ă
    • Occitan: dia
    • Portuguese: dia
    • Romanian: zi
    • Romansch: di, gi
    • Sardinian: dí, día
    • Spanish: día

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