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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 [...]

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