Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/diwyós

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This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Etymology

From *dyew- (sky, heaven) +‎ *-yós (denominative adjectival suffix).

Adjective

*diwyós (non-ablauting)[1]

  1. heavenly

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
  2. ^ "daēvya" in Altiranischen Wörterbuch, by Christian Bartholomae (1904), Strassburg.
  3. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 338