From: bmscotttg
Message: 62715
Date: 2009-02-01
> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>I imagine that Gk. <déato> 'appeared, seemed' (3sg. impf.) is at
>> Not quite: he gives the immediate PIE source of the theonyms
>> as *deiwos (> PGmc. *ti:waz), but the underlying root is
>> *dyeu-. OE <ti:r> and ON <tírr> look to me as if they ought
>> to be from *dih2-ro- (> PGmc. *ti:-ra-), where *dih2- is the
>> zero grade of *deyh2- 'to shine'. I believe that this root
>> is generally thought to be related to *dyew-; you'll note
>> that Watkins calls it a variant in part IV of his entry for
>> *dyeu-.
> How do we know it is H2 in *diH2- ?