Sorry Piotr, I missed your initial answer. I have a problem here. Since the root of *dyeus is *djeu- 'shine' the IE word which gives us the French <<dieu>> 'god', <<jour>> 'day' and 'Jupiter' which is the same in French and English, where did the connection between 'shine' and 'day' come in? Jupiter shines brightly and has long been seen as 'king of the gods' in IE mythologies, but if stellar brightness was a qualification for providing the light of day then a prime contender for that role would surely have gone to Venus?
Ric (perplexed)
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
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> On 2010-06-24 18:45, megalith6 wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > Can anyone please give me the *earliest* root for this word including
> > its meaning and the grammatical profile of the root.
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> The _root_ is *djeu- 'shine'...