Re: [tied] Celtic Deiwos ?

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From: Miguel Carrasquer

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Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:21 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Celtic Deiwos ?

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:33:02 +0000, "A." <xthanex@...>
wrote:

>To you who understand the rules of linguistic transformation,
>
>does anyone know what Deiwos or Dyaus would translate to in the
>Celtic languages?

From the root *dyeu- in IEW we have Celtic:

OIr. dïe, dïa "day"
We. dydd, Corn. deth, dyth, Bret. deiz "day"
OIr. in-diu "today"
We. he-ddyw "today"
Gaul. De:vona, De:vogna:ta (names)
OIr. dia, G. de: "god"
OWe. duiu(-tit) "divinity"
MWe, NWe duw, OCorn. duy, Bret. doué "god"
OIr. denus "span of time", tre:denus "span of three days"

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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