Talk:Daeva

message: Where are the reliable sources that use the term dharmic religions in the context of this article? "Dharmic religions" is a now deleted obscure neologism and should not be used throughout Wikipedia. a good alternative is Indian religions. The number of google scholar results for "Indian religions"+"Indian religion" is (45.600 + 84.200) while it is only (492+475) for "dharmic religions" +"dharmic religion". See Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_September_8. Andries 19:21, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Andries, you're preaching to the choir. :) When I wrote the article I used "Dharmic religions" for convenience. The context was "languages of Indian religions", so I've now used "Indic languages". -- Fullstop 20:51, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Reliable sources for the term 'dharmic religions'?

message: I've removed the following sentence (added yesterday, 28 May) from the "Etymology" section.
:Even amongst Slavic languages, similiar cognates can be observed, such as đavo (lit. "devil") in Serbo-Croatian.Igor K. Garshin (1998) The common origin of the God’s names Yahweh (Jehovah) and Zeus.
The implications of continuity and the suggestion that the meaning of "devil" is related to the Iranian one are not valid. Even if (actually, it is not) Serbo-Croat đavo were a cognate of Avestan daeva, the article already mention the PIE reconstruction, and provides a link to an article where the word is discussed in the European context. Moreover, the citation was formatted in a fashion that is not appropriate for this article, and the source being cited is not a reliable source (the author is a computer programmer, and the work is self-published). On top of all that, the source does not say anything about Serbo-Croat đavo. -- Fullstop (talk) 13:23, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's pretty obvious devil came from this word but yeah without a source, can't say that. Popish Plot (talk) 14:38, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serbo-Croat đavo 

message: Is it possible that Diwe is just a different transliteration for Daeva, or are these two distinct creatures?  --SquidSK (1MC•log) 19:53, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Diwe]] 

message: Is the word cognate with English 'devil'? 93.96.236.8 (talk) 14:08, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No. See the etymology of 'devil' in Wiktionary. --Vahagn Petrosyan (talk) 16:40, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: that wiktionary has no sources. Popish Plot (talk) 14:39, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Devil

message: There are many evil spirits in Turkish language. Cin (Djinn), Albastı, Almasty, Karabasan, Gulyabani (Ghoul), İblis (Diabolus), Karaconcolos, Canavar, Yaratık...
Div isnt one of them. I looked up literally all etymology dictionaries (including but not limited to TDK and Nişanyan) and this word or anything similar to it does not exists. I was thrilled and excited for a moment that Indo-European word for divinity exists in Turkish language, but no. If it does exists then is there any source to support this claim? Cactus Ronin (talk) 06:30, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: False alert, i have found one source that supports this article's claim. Nevermind, I will correct myself. Cactus Ronin (talk) 06:35, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pseudo-Turkic Word, "Div"