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I have been trying to reconstruct the "proper" nominative form for Iupiter that I usually see referred to as Iovis (from earlier Diovis). That just looks like the genitive form to me, or at least I can't figure out why noun that otherwise declines like a consonant stem should acquire a nominative -is ending. My initial thought is that the "proper" nominative form ought to be Ios, on the model of bos, bovis, with a derivation something like PIE *dyeu-s > diow-s > dios > ios.
Any thoughts or corrections? Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Andersonhttp://www.carlaz.com/