🤩Etymology map for the word "God" in European languages.
Despite the common features of the Proto-Indo-European religion, inherited by the later traditions of the speakers of Indo-European languages, the concept of 'god' has different origins among them.
🤩Germanic: god, Gott, gud. 1) The original may be the Proto-Indo-European root *gheu meaning "to call". That is, god is the one who is called. 2) The original root is *ghu, which meant "to pour, to pour, to make a libation". In this case, god is the one to whom the sacrifice is made.
🤩Romance: dieu, deus, dios. Here we are talking about the root *dyew with the semantics of "light, sky, radiance" and the word *deywós formed from it, which already means "god". I.e., god is the one who lives in the sky and gives light.
🤩Greek: θεός [theós]. Here the root *dʰéh₁s is restored with the semantics of "god" or "sanctuary", derived from *dʰeh ("to do" or "to arrange"). Here god is the doer.
🤩Slavic: бог, bóg, bůh. Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bogъ. Derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- ("to divide" ). Cognates include Sanskrit भग (bhaga, "happiness, welfare, prosperity"). Probably, the Slavic understanding of god comes from the idea of some great distributor of goods.
🤩Iranian: Xweda, xoday, кудай. The word comes from Proto-Indo-Iranian *hwatā́wā, which meant "lord". This word consists of the parts *hwa and *tawa. The first part, *hwa, corresponds to Proto-Indo-European *swa and means "oneself, oneself", and the second, *tawa, has the semantics of strength and power. I.e., god means lord.
🤩Hungarian: Isten. According to linguist Károly Rédei, it may also be of Iranian-Aryan origin. In Old Hungarian, the Middle Iranian form *ištan (> ištÁn) acquired the meaning "greatness, dignity, majesty".
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