Dyeus

English Etymology en ine-pro *dyḗws. en Jove Zeus. Pronunciation en How is this usually pronounced in English? Does it follow English phonotactics? Maybe /diːˈeɪuːs/ or /diːˈeɪəs/? Proper noun en linguistics anthropology mythology The daylight-sky god in Proto-Indo-European mythology. en The Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origins w:V. Gordon Childe 1926 81 Varuna may be related to Οὐρανός, and the inversion of the rôles of this deity and Dyeus as between India and Greece may indicate an ancient rival of the Sky-Father. en The Origin and Development of Religion in Vedic Literature w:Panjabrao Deshmukh 1933 w:Oxford University Press 93, 126 But these myths are on the whole of purely Greek origin, where the original Dyeus was associated with the Sun- and the Moon-myths.Thus among the I.E.s we first have Dyeus, the god of the sky, who was the god of the sum total of the phenomena observed in the sky, the original conception, however powerful, being as yet too confused to have any definiteness about it. en Anthropological Glossary Roger Pearson 1985 0898745101 16 ARYAN RELIGION, the religion of the Aryans who settled India and Iran in pre-Zoroastrian times evolved around a supreme sky god known as Dyeus, who was the Allfather of both gods and men and the consort of the Mother Earth. en A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our Lives Sophy Burnham 1990 w:Ballantine Books 119 0345361571 Four or five thousand years ago (around 2500 b.c.) the Aryans, or Indo-Europeans, settled in Iran and India. Their supreme god was Dyeus (thence Zeus, deus, deity, and other words). Dyeus was the shining God of Sky, the giver of rain, the vanquisher of enemies with thunderbolts. en The Encyclopedia of God: An A-Z Guide to Thoughts, Ideas, and Beliefs about God Constance Victoria Briggs 2003 w:Hampton Roads Publishing Company 1571742484 23, 68 “God” to the Aryans was male and took on many forms. Their major gods were connected to the sun, the most important were Agni, Indra, and Varunai. Their main god was Dyeus (Sky God).Dyeus / The God of the Aryans. en City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right w:Michael Mayerfeld Bell 2018 2020 w:Princeton University Press 0691202915 Chapter 2: Nature Before Nature 19 The PIE peoples had called their chief god by almost the same name: Dyeus. Like Zeus, Dyeus was a male god of sky and thunder. The Romans picked up on Dyeus too. The name “Jupiter” came from dyeu-pater, PIE for god-father. Later on, the Romans equated Jupiter with Zeus, a kind of double derivation from Dyeus. Usage notes Note that this spelling does not correspond exactly to modern standard notations of ine-pro -, which do not treat the semivowels differently when they occur in a diphthong (i.e. ⟨u̯⟩ and ⟨eu̯⟩, or ⟨w⟩ and ⟨ew⟩, as opposed to ⟨eu⟩). Related terms en Dyaus Pita en Jupiter en Zeus Further reading Anagrams en desuy Duesy Dueys en terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dyew- en Gods