Re: [tied] Clarification for short story.

> 2) Since *dei- is the root for "god" and "shining," wouldn't *Deiaus
> P@... literally be the "Shining Father"? And might he then be a very
> old Sun-god? I know there was another god for the sun, but mightn't
> *Deiaus P@... have been a sun god antedating the other one?
>
> 3) To say "I believe in you / I put my heart in you, Deiaus P@...,"
> would it be "Egh kerd-dhe, Deiaus P@..." ?

IMHO there is the root d-j-w "sky";
thematic deiw-o-z "a being living on the sky, a god"
(as oposed to (d)g^em-o-z "a being living on the earth")
and athematic Djew-z "personified Sky",
Djew-z PH2ter-z (>PH2te:r) "Father the Sky".

P.A.