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'''Devarajah''' (''English:'' Divine King or God King) is an ancient and uncommon surname of [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] origin. See [[Sacred king|Sacred Kingship]]<br />
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'''Dēva''' derives from the [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] (PIE) word, *deiwos, originally an adjective meaning "celestial" or "shining", which is a PIE (not synchronic Sanskrit) vrddhi derivative from the root *diw meaning "to shine", especially as the day-lit sky(words such as the English "Day", Spanish "Día", Sanksirt "Div/Dina", Lithuanian "Diena" stem from *diw - literally the '''day'''-lit sky). <br /><br />
[[Zeus]], [[Týr]], [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]], [[Dyaus Pita|Dyauṣ Pitār]] and the names of various other Indo-European gods are closely linked derivatives of the PIE *deiwos, specifically from [[Dyeus]] and its derivatives: ''dyāus'' in Sanskrit, ''deus'' in Latin and ''zeus'' in Ancient Greek.<br />
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'''Rajah''' is an aristocratic title derived from the [[Sanskrit]] rājān- which is cognate to Latin rēx (genitive rēgis), Gaulish rīx etc., originally denoting tribal chiefs or heads of small 'city states'. It is ultimately derived from a PIE *h3rẽǵs, a vrddhi formation to the root *h3reǵ- "to straighten, to order, to rule". The Sanskrit n-stem is secondary in the male title, apparently adapted from the female counterpart rājñī which also has an -n- suffix in related languages, compare Old Irish rígain and Latin regina.<br />
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