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--- Carl Edlund Anderson skrzypszy: > 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? Well, considering that _bos_ is originally a contraction of _bov+s_, your educated guess _Ios_ sounds reasonable to me. _Iuppiter_ (with two p's IIRC) is of course a contraction of _Iov-pater_. Jan ===== "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito." ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html