From: Francesco Brighenti
Message: 66226
Date: 2010-06-26
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "megalith6" <megalith6@...> wrote:
[re: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/66224%5d
> 'Not independent formations'...
I meant to say that the Indic *titles* 'deva' and 'devî' you cited are not independent formations, namely, they are the same words as deva/devî in the sense of god/goddesses. In other words, these titles don't derive directly from the root for 'shine'.
> ...'deva' and 'devî' are cognate...
Yes, of course they are.
> ...and share a common root 'diw', is this correct please?
Here are the concerned Sanskrit etymologies from A. Lubotsky's Indo-Aryan etymological database:
1) Proto-Indo-European *deih2- 'to shine' > Proto-Indo-Iranian *daiH- (where /H/ = an indeterminable laryngeal phoneme) 'id.' > Sanskrit dayI- (where, as I believe, /I/ denotes labialisation of the preceding phoneme) 'id.'.
2) PIE *dieu- 'day(light), heaven' > PIIr. *diau- 'heaven, god of the sky, Father Sky, day' > Skt. dyav- 'id.'.
3) PIE *deiu-o- 'god' > PIIr. *daiua- 'id.' > Skt. deva- 'id.'.
4) PIE *deiu-ih2- 'goddess' > PIIr. *daiuiH- 'id.' > Skt. devî 'id.'.
Regards,
Francesco