
English word journal comes from Proto-Indo-European *dyew-, Latin diu, Proto-Italic *djēm, and later Proto-Italic *djous (Jupiter. Day, sky.)
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*dyew- (Proto-Indo-European)
god, sky, sky, sky, heaven
diu (Latin)
Continually, all day. Long enough. Long, long while, for a long time.
*djēm (Proto-Italic)
*djous (Proto-Italic)
Jupiter. Day, sky.
diovos (Latin)
diem (Latin)
diurnus (Latin)
Daily. Of the day Day (medieval Latin only).
diurnalis (Latin)
Diurnal (of the day; that takes place during the day).
journal (Old French)
Daily.
journal (English)
(obsolete) Daily. To archive or record something.. To insert (a shaft, etc.) in a journal bearing.. To scrapbook. (accounting) A chronological record of payments.. (computing) A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system; along with a backup or image copy that allows recovery after a failure or reinstatement to a previous time; a log.. (engineering) The part of a [...]