Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/djous
Proto-Italic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws.[1]
Noun
*djous m
Declension
In the meaning "Jupiter", it was commonly reinforced with *patēr (“father”), giving *djous patēr. This was apparently particularly common in vocative address.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | *djous | *djowes |
| vocative | *djou | *djowes |
| accusative | *djēm | *djowens |
| genitive | *djowes, -os | *djowom |
| dative | *djowei | *djouβos |
| ablative | *djowe? | *djouβos |
| locative | *djowe? | *djouβos |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Old Latin: Diovis (old standalone form of Iovis (“Jove”) prior to conflation with nominatives from *djous patēr like Diēspiter (“Jupiter”) to form later Iuppiter, Iovis; also preserved in compound Vēdiovis (literally “Anti-Jove”)), diovos, diovei and other forms
- Latin: diēs (nominative back-formed from accusative), Iovis (genitive), diūs (preserved in 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) (see there for further descendants)
- Oscan: 𐌃𐌉𐌞𐌅𐌄𐌝 (diúveí), 𐌉𐌞𐌅𐌄𐌝 (iúveí), 𐌉𐌖𐌅𐌄𐌝 (iuveí)
- Picene: iuve
- Umbrian: 𐌉𐌖𐌅𐌄 (iuve)
- Marsian: Ioue, Iouies
- ⇒ Pre-Samnite: ιιοϝιιοι (iiowiioi) (adjectival derivative of a theonym)
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “diēs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 170