𐎭𐎡𐎺
Old Persian
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deywós. Cognates include Sanskrit देव (deva), Latin deus, Proto-Germanic *Tīwaz (whence the first element in English Tuesday), Proto-Celtic *dēwos.
Noun
𐎭𐎡𐎺 (daiva) m
- foreign god, false god
Descendants
- Middle Persian:
- Manichaean: 𐫅𐫏𐫇 (dyw /dēw/, “evil spirit, demon”)
- Book Pahlavi: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ŠDYA /dēw/, “evil spirit, demon”)
- Classical Persian: [Term?]
- → Arabic: ديو (díyu)
- → Ottoman Turkish: دیو (div)
- → Urdu: دیو (dīv)
- Iranian Persian: دیو (div, “demon”)
- → English: div
- ⇒ Middle Persian:
- Book Pahlavi: [Book Pahlavi needed] (dywwk' /dēwōg/, “leech”)
- Persian: دیوک (dīvok, dīvak, “leech”)
- → Aramaic: דיוא (daywā)
- Classical Syriac: ܕܝܘܐ (daywā)