Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/djous

This Proto-Italic entry contains reconstructed terms 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-Italic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws.

Noun

*djous m

1. day, sky

   Antonym: *nokts

2. Jupiter

Declension

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)
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

• *deiwos

Descendants

• 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)