Formula to generate the Divine Names from Ego-Pronouns

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Some of the ego-pronouns are following the rules for generating divine names by the formula:
<The Divine Name> = (Z &) <the relevant ego-pronoun> & s
or
<The Divine Name> = (D &) <the relevant ego-pronoun> & s
This rule had been identified from numerous Mediterranean languages and dialects1.
I extended this list and as suggestions added some Germanic structures to illustrate the patterns. The
list has been sorted according to column 5 (the divine Name) in which identity has been encoded by
= and similarity by ~. Some details and source links have been added in the Remarkscolumn:
Postfix Divine Name Remarks
(God)

Language
/Dialect

Prefix EgoPronoun

Galicia

eu

Portuguese

eu

Romansh - Surmiran

ia

=Dia

Surmiran Rosary Prayers

gievgia (Thursday)

Provencal

iu / jew2

=Diu

Mirio - A Provenal poem

dijou (Thursday)

Italian

=Di

gioved (Thursday)
dies Iovis (Thursday - Latin)

Spanish

yo

=Dios

dies Iovis (Latin)

old-English

ih

=Dis

Dispater: a god of the underworld

English

=Dis

Dispater: a god of the underworld

old-German

ih

=Dis3

Dispater: a god of the underworld

Brythonic

i, fi 4

=Dis 5

Dispater: a god of the underworld

Sicily

iu

=Diu

giuvid (Thursday), also:

jovida o jovira o juvir o iuvid o
juvid o iuvir o jovi o iovi o juovi
o iuovi)

Romanian

eu

=Zeu

joi (Thursday)

Romansh - Vallader

Z
Di

eu

=Zeu
=Dieu

Raeto-romansh

Alemannic - Pfaelzisch6

isch

=Zisch

Zischtig (Tuesday)

Old High German

i(u)

=Ziu

Vulgar Latin
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

eo

=Deu
s

=Deus

=es

The Hermetic Codex II - Bipolar Monotheism

spreadsheet of Swadesh words
Dis has 53 BC been described by Julius Caesar in Commentaries on the Gallic Wars VI:18
spreadsheet of Swadesh words
List of Celtic deities
Palatine German
from Latin ego

Oscan

ei

~Dive

Jupiter

Walloon

dji

~Dju

God
Djudi (Thursday)

Sardinian Campidanese8 -

du

~Deu

Gjbia (thursday)

Catalan

jo

~Deu

ideally Djo
dijous (Thursday)

Romansh - Putr / Ladin D

Id

I / i
eau

=D
~Id

Deutsch > Gadertalisch (Ladin)

Romansh - Putr / Ladin D

Id

I / i
eau

~Die (Dieies) Deutsch > Grdnerisch (Ladin)

~Idie

Romansh - Sutsilvan

jou

~Diu

ideally Djous

Rumantsch - Grischun

jau

~Dieu - Zeu

Rto-romansh - ideally Djau

gievgia (Thursday)

Nimes

yiou

~Dou9

Szto de la Placto by
Antoine Hippolyte Bigot

Romansh - Sursilvan

jeu

~Diu

jeudi (Thursday)
The Short Obligatory Prayer

Savoy

zhe

~dzhyu, dzu

central-east (Cordon)

Savoy10

dzeu

~dzou, dz,
djeu, Dyeu

south-east (Montagny, Bozel)

Bavarian11 (Tirol)

ech

~Eesch, sch Eeschda, schtg = Tuesday

Luxembourg

Isch, ich

~Eesch, sch Eeschda, schtg = Tuesday

Old English

ich

~Tig

correlating to German ich12.

Old High German

& Hessian

aisch

~Zes

Zestag (Tuesday)

Zioba (thursday)

Extract

Venetian

mi

~Dio

Gaelic-Manx

mee
mish

ee
ish

~Jee13

Cornish

my

~Duw

Jerdein (Thursday)
(plural jeeghyn) Day (jer) of the Gods
(plural duwow)

Welsh

mi, fi

~Duw
(plural duwiau)

Irish

~Dia
(plural dithe)

Scottish Gaelic

mi

~Dia
(plural diathan)

8
9
10
11
12
13
14

Dy' Yow (Thursday)

Day (dy) of the Gods
dydd Iau (Thursday)
Day (dydd) of the Gods
Diu iath14 (Wednesday)
Day (dydd) of the Gods
Di-Ardaoin/Diardaoin
(Thursday)

Hieroglyphs in Indo-European Languages

Yiou = Dou in the dialect of Nimes
Savoy French Dialects
Tage der Woche (Verbreitung im bairischen Sprachraum)
Similar pronouns are gothic-Dutch ik, ags. ic and Icelandic ek
Probably from: Djee (?) Notes on a Gaelic Manx Dictionary
Diu iath - Wednesday. A form unique to Irish, meaning uncertain. (from: Names of the days of the week,
Cormac's Glossary)

Celtic Variants
The Gaelic-Manx, Cornish, Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic languages seemed to have replaced a
leading M in the ego-pronoun to form the divine name. The Thursdays (and sometimes
Wednesdays) may have been matched to the plural form gods.
The Gaelic-Manx divine name Jee seems to have been derived from Djee ( Dieu?). The
emphasized ego-pronoun mish may be correlating to German ich.
In Irish the old word Diu iath Wednesday (a form unique to Irish, meaning uncertain) seems to
match to the plural dithe of dia (god).
The Scottish Gaelic name for Thursday refers to The day between two fasts (An D idir dh aoin, in
Irish contracted to An Dardaoin) (Christianity)15.

Language
/Dialect

Prefix Ego-Pronoun Egoextract

Divine Name
(God)

Remarks

Gaelic-Manx

Jerdein (Thursday)
Day (jer) of the Gods

Cornish

mee
mish

ee
ish

~Jee16

my

~Duw

(plural jeeghyn)
(plural duwow)

Welsh

mi, fi

~Duw
(plural duwiau)

Irish

~Dia
(plural dithe)

Scottish Gaelic D

mi

Dy' Yow (Thursday)

Day (dy) of the Gods
dydd Iau (Thursday)
Day (dydd) of the Gods
Diu iath17 (Wednesday)
Day (dydd) of the Gods

(plural diathan)

Di-Ardaoin/Diardaoin (Thursday)
The day between two fasts (An D
idir dh aoin, contracted to An
Dardaoin) (Christianity)

~Dia

Breton

me

~Yaou (Jupiter)

diriaou, Yaou (Thursday)

(day of Jupiter)

Venetian

mi

~Dio

Zioba (Thursday)

Lombard

(a) mi

~Gio

Gjbia (Thursday)

15 Names of the days of the week

16 Probably from: Djee (?) Notes on a Gaelic Manx Dictionary
17 Diu iath - Wednesday. A form unique to Irish, meaning uncertain. (from: Names of the days of the week,
Cormac's Glossary)