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dyu

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dyú (nom. dyaús
• voc. dyáus [RV. vi, 51, 5 AV. vi, 4, 3]
• acc. dyā́m dívam
• instr. divā́ or dī́vā see below
• dat. dive [dyave MBh. i, 3934]
• abl. gen. divás [rarely dyós e.g. RV. iv, 27, 3 ; i, 115, 5] [Page 478, Column 3]
• loc. diví, dyávi
• du. dyāvā s.v. [dyávii as voc. only iv, 56, 5]
• pl. nom. dyā́as [divas only ix, 118, 11]
• acc. dyū́n [rare, dívas, divás e.g. i, 194, 2 ; iv, 3, 8]
• instr. dyúbhis
• native grammarians give as stems div and dyo
• the latter is declined through all cases like go, but really does not occur except in forms mentioned above and in dyo-salila MBh. viii, 4658, while div and dyu regularly alternate before vow. and cons.), m. (rarely f.) in Ved., f. in later Skr. heaven, the sky (regarded in Ved. as rising in three tiers [avama, madhyama, uttama or tṛtīya RV. v, 60, 6 &c.], and generally as the father (dyaúṣ pitā́, while the earth is the mother [cf. dyāvā-pṛthivii], and Ushas the daughter), rarely as a goddess, daughter of Prajā-pati AitBr. iii, 33 ŚBr.i, 7, 4,)
• m. (rarely n.) day(esp. in pl. and in such forms as dívā, by day (cf. s.v.)
• dyávi-dyavi, daily, every day
• ánu dyū́n, day by day, daily
• dyúbhis and úpa dyúbhis, by day or in the course of days, a long time RV.
• m. brightness, sheen, glow (only dyúbhis) RV. i, 53, 4 ; iii, 3, 2 &c
• fire (nom. dyus) L. [Cf. dyú ; Gk. Zev4e, ? &c. = dyaús, [478, 3] divás ; Lat. ñou, ñu in ñu-piter, ñovis, ñovi &c. = dyavas, dyavi ; O. E. ṭíw ; O. H. G. Zī7udyu 2
dyú for 3. div as inflected stem and in comp. before consonants • O. N. Tyr

dyu 1
dyu cl. 2. P. dyauti (cf. Dhātup. xxiv, 31
• pf. dudyāva, 3 pl. dudyuvur) to go against, attack, assail Bhaṭṭ.

dyu 2
dyú for 3. div as inflected stem and in comp. before consonants