Re: [tied] Re: illyrian lexicon or inventory

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> 14-11-03 23:28, alex wrote:
>
>> Egijus wrote:
>>>> Proto-Albanian: dzie:u-
>>>> Meaning: God
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Lithuanian word DIEVAS means GOD, Latvian word DEVS means GOD,
>>> Dzukian word DZIEVAS means GOD too.
>>>
>>> Regards, Egijus
>>
>> they are all reflexes of Latin "deus":-)))
>
> They aren't. They reflect PIE *deiwos 'divine; deity', from which
> <deus> also derives. In other words, they are cousins, not children,
> of the Latin word.
>
> Piotr

Piotr, we have a lot of symbols we use here. I have to recognise I don't
know how to exprime trough emoticons the irony. I thought the ":-)))"
should be enough, but it seems I was wrong.

Alex