Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/djous
Proto-Italic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws.
Noun edit
*djous m
Declension edit
In the meaning "Jupiter", it was commonly reinforced with *patēr (“father”), giving *djous patēr. This was apparently particularly common in vocative address.
consonant stem, irregularDeclension of *djous (consonant stem, irregular) | ||
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case | singular | plural |
nominative | *djous | *djowes |
vocative | *djou | *djowes |
accusative | *djēm | *djowens |
genitive | *djowes, -os | *djowom |
dative | *djowei | *djouβos |
ablative | *djowe? | *djouβos |
locative | *djowe? | *djouβos |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Old Latin: Diovis (old standalone form of Iovis (“Jove”) prior to conflation with nominatives from *djous patēr like Diēspiter (“Jupiter”) to form later Iuppiter, Iovis; also preserved in compound Vēdiovis (literally “Anti-Jove”)), diovos, diovei and other forms
- Latin: diēs (nominative back-formed from accusative), Iovis (genitive), diūs (preserved in fossilised expressions mē-diūs-fidius (interjection) and nū-diūs-tertius (“day before yesterday”)), diū (possibly from the endingless variant of the locative), originally "during the day" (compare noctū) (see there for further descendants)
- Oscan: 𐌃𐌉𐌞𐌅𐌄𐌝 (diúveí), 𐌉𐌞𐌅𐌄𐌝 (iúveí), 𐌉𐌖𐌅𐌄𐌝 (iuveí)
- Picene: iuve
- Umbrian: 𐌉𐌖𐌅𐌄 (iuve)