>>803319
Thanks for the schooling (seriously), but what's your opinion about Jove/Jovis then? Since in your example about "sol-wo" it may very well have sounded like a W for Jove too.
Another sidepoint is that there is extraneous history that backs up what I was saying, and it has nothing to do with Latin (not at first). In the Maccabean age, if you recall, the Greeks suppressed the religion and name of God and killed Jews who tried practicing it.
"Then the king wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one people, and abandon their particular customs. All the Gentiles conformed to the command of the king, and many Israelites delighted in his religion; they sacrificed to idols and profaned the sabbath. [..] Whoever refused to act according to the command of the king was to be put to death." - 1 Mac 1:41-42, 50
By that time, Samaritans (leftovers from the Assyrian mixing and repopulation during the Exile) had made a home in the region too and adopted some of the Jewish customs and religion. Except they worshipped on Mt Gerizim (like the woman at the well with Jesus, if you recall). But during the Maccabean period, they punked out and told the Hellenic leaders about their origins and that they weren't really Jews, and they would gladly change their shrines in honor of Zeus (Jupiter/Jove). 2 Maccabees points this out:
"And not long after this the king sent forth an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of God and also to pollute the sanctuary in Jerusalem, and to call it by the name of Jupiter Olympius, and to call the sanctuary in Gerizim by the name of Jupiter the Protector of strangers, even as they were that lived in the place." 2 Mac 6:1-2
Josephus later makes a point about this:
"When the Samaritans saw the Jews under these sufferings, they no longer confessed that they were of their kindred, nor that the temple on Mount Gerizzim belonged to Almighty God. This was according to their nature, as we have already shown. And they now said that they were a colony of Medes and Persians; and indeed they were a colony of theirs. So they sent ambassadors to Antiochus, and an epistle, whose contents are these: “To king Antiochus the god, Epiphanes, a memorial from the Sidonians, who live at Shechem. Our forefathers, upon certain frequent plagues, and as following a certain ancient superstition, had a custom of observing that day which by the Jews is called the Sabbath. And when they had erected a temple at the mountain called Gerrizzim, though without a name, they offered upon it the proper sacrifices. Now, upon the just treatment of these wicked Jews, those that manage their affairs, supposing that we were of kin to them, and practiced as they do, make us liable to the same accusations, although we be originally Sidonians, as is evident from the public records. We therefore beseech thee, our benefactor and Savior, to give order to Apollonius, the governor of this part of the country, and to Nicanor, the procurator of thy affairs, to give us no disturbance, nor to lay to our charge what the Jews are accused for, since we are aliens from their nation, and from their customs; but let our temple, which at present hath no name at all be named the Temple of Jupiter Hellenius."
Now what's the big deal and my point in all of this? Well, before modern scholarship, the ONLY people who ever pronounced the Tetragrammaton as "Yahweh" have only ever been Samaritans. They still pronounce it this way to this day. Don't you find it a bit suspicious that out of all the people who only pronounced it as Yahweh are also the traitors who cast off God during the Maccabean age and dedicated their religion to Jupiter?
And on a stranger note, when Rome finally burned down Jerusalem and rebuilt it in their image, they renamed it Aelia Capitolina and redicated it to Jupiter Capitolinus. This push to erase the God of Israel in the name of Jove doesn't seem to be a new thing.
Anyways, this is a massive derail. Sorry about that.