Indo-European sacred space: Vedic and Roman cultArchived 2017-02-05 at the वेबैक मशीन, Roger D. Woodard, University of Illinois Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-252-02988-2, ... in Iran ... dmana-paiti, the vis-paiti, the zantu-paiti, and the dahyu-paiti ... Vedic dam-pati- 'master of the house', cognate to Avestan dmana-paiti, Greek preserves δεσ-πότης‚ 'master, despot, lord, owner'; the Avestan vis-paiti finds his etymological counterpart not only in Vedia vis-pati- 'chief of the settlement, lord of the house', but in Lithuanian vies-pats 'lord' ...
A short manual of comparative philology for classical students, Peter Giles, Macmillan and Co., 1895, ... in Lithuanian pats (older patis), which means husband or lord and is identical with the Greek, Skt. patis and Latin potis (no longer a substantive) ... The Latin form of this word - potis - gives us an example of a substantive coming to be used as an adjective. In the verb possum, a corruption of potis sum, the original sense 'I am master' has faded into the vaguer 'I am able' ...
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Indo-European sacred space: Vedic and Roman cultArchived 2017-02-05 at the वेबैक मशीन, Roger D. Woodard, University of Illinois Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-252-02988-2, ... in Iran ... dmana-paiti, the vis-paiti, the zantu-paiti, and the dahyu-paiti ... Vedic dam-pati- 'master of the house', cognate to Avestan dmana-paiti, Greek preserves δεσ-πότης‚ 'master, despot, lord, owner'; the Avestan vis-paiti finds his etymological counterpart not only in Vedia vis-pati- 'chief of the settlement, lord of the house', but in Lithuanian vies-pats 'lord' ...