Re: IS PIE * DERU EXCLUSIVELY INDO-EUROPEAN ?

> Like word "day" :
> d-yew "day"
> Semitic *yaw-m "day" "to-day"
> As a matter of fact, Ju-piter has not #d-
> when dies has !!

This is my version:

Some 'priestly sociolect' of Latin pronounced written i- as y-; people
in general pronounced dy- (which later became standard Romance *dz^-).
In the nature of things, this is nowhere documented, except for some
'priestly' hypercorrections: /yanus/ for *dyanus (cf. Diana),
/yupiter/, /yow-/ for *dyupiter, *dyow-.

> Orthodox PIE has **failed** to theorize
> a #d- prefix.
> But PIE had it.
> No doubt.

You never do.


Torsten