Word Origin Summary

*dyḗws is attested in Proto-Indo-European. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• יופּיטער

  YID · derived from

• dia

  Guinea-Bissau Creole · derived from

• Veiovis

  Latin · derived from

• द्यौष्पितृ

  Sanskrit · inherited from

• dia

  Kabuverdianu · derived from

• à jour

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• ajournement

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• Dyaus Pita

  English · borrowed from

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