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Dyeus

Dyeus proper noun: the daylight-sky god in Proto-Indo-European mythology.

Proper noun

Dyeus

  1. The daylight-sky god in Proto-Indo-European mythology.
    • 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.1926, V. Gordon Childe, The Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origins, page 81
    • 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...1933, Panjabrao Deshmukh, The Origin and Development of Religion in Vedic Literature, Oxford University Press, pages 93, 126

Examples of Dyeus in a sentence

  • Their supreme god was Dyeus (thence Zeus, deus, deity, and other words).1990, Sophy Burnham, A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our Lives, Ballantine...
  • Their main god was Dyeus (Sky God).[…]Dyeus / The God of the Aryans.2003, Constance Victoria Briggs, The Encyclopedia of God: An A-Z Guide to Thoughts, Ideas, and Beliefs about God, Hampton Roads Publishing...
  • The PIE peoples had called their chief god by almost the same name: Dyeus.2018, Michael Mayerfeld Bell, “Chapter 2: Nature Before Nature”, in City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is...

Origin of Dyeus

Learned borrowing from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws. Doublet of Jove and Zeus.

Questions about Dyeus

What does Dyeus mean?
Dyeus means the daylight-sky god in Proto-Indo-European mythology.
How do you use Dyeus in a sentence?
Their supreme god was Dyeus (thence Zeus, deus, deity, and other words).
What part of speech is Dyeus?
Dyeus is a proper noun.

Words near Dyeus in the dictionary

  1. dyestuff
  2. dyestuffs
  3. dyet
  4. dyeth
  5. dyets
  6. Dyeus
  7. dyewater
  8. dyewaters
  9. dyeweed
  10. dyewood
  11. dyewoods

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