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Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/djous
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Proto-Italic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdjou̯s/
Noun
*djous m
- day, sky
- Jupiter
Declension
In the meaning "Jupiter", it was commonly reinforced with *patēr (“father”), giving *djous patēr. This was apparently particularly common in vocative address.
| consonant stem, irregularDeclension of *djous (consonant stem, irregular) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | *djous | *djowes |
| vocative | *djou | *djowes |
| accusative | *djēm | *djowens |
| genitive | *djowes, -os | *djowom |
| dative | *djowei | *djouβos |
| ablative | *djowe? | *djouβos |
| locative | *djowe? | *djouβos |
Related terms
- *deiwos
Descendants
- Latin: diovos, diovei and other forms
- Latin: diēs (nominative back-formed from accusative), Iovis (genitive), *diūs (only in the fossilised expressions mē-diūs-fidius (interjection) and nū-diūs-tertius (“day before yesterday”)), diū (possibly from the endingless variant of the locative), originally "during the day" (compare noctū).
- Oscan: 𐌃𐌉𐌞𐌅𐌄𐌝 (diúveí), 𐌉𐌞𐌅𐌄𐌝 (iúveí), 𐌉𐌖𐌅𐌄𐌝 (iuveí)
- Picene: iuve
- Umbrian: 𐌉𐌖𐌅𐌄 (iuve)