[[epithets]] *** ## Biblio [[EIEC]]p149 [[jackson2002]]p79] [[dexter1997-dawn]]149 ## Table ||| |-|-|-| PIE | `*dhuĝhₐtḗr diwós` | "sky daughter" / "Daughter of [Dyēus](day-sky-father.md)" Lith. | diẽvo duktė | "Daughter of the sky" (i.e. [[saule]]) Proto-Hellenic | *Diwós tʰugátēr*| (i.e. `*Hāwōs` [[eos]]) Grk. | thugátēr Diós | "Daughter of Zeus" (i.e. [[aphrodite 1]]) Skt. | duhitā́ diváh Applied to the dawn goddess ([[dawn]]) in the Baltic Greek and Indic tradition ## Etymology of her name and its connection to an epithet of the dawn goddess > Wiktionary: > "In an older position now rejected a Greek etymology is proposed [for [Aphrodítē](aphrodite%201.md)] connecting -δίτη (-dítē) with the verb δέατο (déato, “to shine, to appear, seem”) (Homeric δῆλος (dêlos, “visible, conspicuous, clear”)[originally from PIE [*dyew-](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/dyew-) "bright; sky, heaven") and interpret the name as originating from an epithet of the dawn goddess Ἠώς (Ēṓs)."