Select Search ----- All Bartleby.com ----- All Reference ----- Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Brewer's Phrase & Fable Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough ----- All Verse ----- Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. ----- All Nonfiction ----- Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals ----- All Fiction ----- Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > American Heritage® > Dictionary   PREVIOUS NEXT   CONTENTS · INDEX · ILLUSTRATIONS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD    The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.   Appendix I Indo-European Roots   ENTRY: dyeu- DEFINITION: To shine (and in many derivatives, “sky, heaven, god”). Zero-grades *dyu- and *diw-. Derivatives include Tuesday, divine, jovial, Jupiter, diary, dismal, journey, and psychedelic.    I. Basic form *dyeu-, Jove, the name of the god of the bright sky, head of the Indo-European pantheon. 1. Jove, jovial; Sangiovese, from Latin Iovis, Jupiter, or Iov-, stem of Iuppiter, Jupiter. 2. July, from Latin Ilius, “descended from Jupiter” (name of a Roman gens), from derivative *iou-il-. 3. Vocative compound *dyeu-pter, “O father Jove” (*pter-, father; see pter-). Jupiter, from Latin Iuppiter, Ipiter, head of the Roman pantheon. 4. Dione, Zeus; dianthus, Dioscuri, from Greek Zeus (genitive Dios), Zeus.    II. Noun *deiwos, god, formed by e-insertion to the zero-grade *diw- and suffixation of (accented) -o-. 1a. Tiu, Tuesday, from Old English Tw (genitive Twes), god of war and sky; b. Tyr, from Old Norse Tr, sky god. Both a and b from Germanic *Twaz. 2. deism, deity, Deus, joss; adieu, deific, from Latin deus, god. 3. diva, divine, from Latin dvus, divine, god. 4. Dis, Dives, from Latin dves, rich (< “fortunate, blessed, divine”). 5. Suffixed zero-grade form *diw-yo-, heavenly. Diana, from Latin Dina, moon goddess. 6. Devi; deodar, Devanagari, from Sanskrit deva, god, and deva-, divine. 7. Asmodeus, from Avestan dava-, spirit, demon.    III. Variant *dy- (< *dye-). dial, diary, diet2, dismal, diurnal, journal, journey; adjourn, circadian, meridian, postmeridian, quotidian, sojourn, from Latin dis, day.    IV. Variant *dei-. psychedelic, woolly adelgid, from Greek dlos (< *deyalos), clear. (Pokorny 1. dei- 183.)     The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. CONTENTS · INDEX · ILLUSTRATIONS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD   PREVIOUS NEXT     Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore. Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com