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Lithuanian Dievas,
Latvian Dievs and Debestēvs ("Sky-Father"),
Latgalian Dīvs, Old
Prussian Diews,
Yotvingian Deivas was the
primordial supreme god in...
- "day" < *din-is), Ukr. dyvo and Russ. divo "miracle"
OPrus deina "day",
deiws "god", Lith
diena "day",
dievas "god" OIr dīe, W dydd "day"; OIr dia (dē)...
- Indo-European-speaking society, we can
reconstruct with
certainty the word for “god,” *
deiw-os, and the two-word name of the
chief deity of the pantheon, *dyeu-pəter-...
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languages generally conserved the
following features: the
diphthong *ei (e.g.
deiws 'god', (ACC)
deinan 'day'),
palatalized consonants /kʲ/, /gʲ/ (they are...
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weakened to -is in Pomesanian; in
Sambian they are
syncopated (deywis :
deiws 'god').
Vocabulary differences encomp**** Pom. smoy [zmoy] (cf. Lith. žmuo)...
