Re: 'dyeus'

>The Altaic part of that root:
>http://tinyurl.com/27souut
>http://tinyurl.com/2eo76gh
>
>It makes one wonder whether the Sky God
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Father
>in Indo-European is a loan from the outside (as he was in Altaic)?

Why should it be (not the other way around)?

"God" is the secondary meaning of TANG-/TENG-/TING- (or TNGR);
the primary meaning of it is "(the blue) sky". OTOH, note that
the "substrate" of those "Altaic" semi-nomads who spread the tangri
word actually had spoken PIE, idioms (as "Scythians", "Tokharians"
etc). (i.e., praktisch die... echten "Asen", die Eure Mythologie
inspiriert haben. :))

>Torsten

Jürgen