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Happy editing! Ian.thomson (talk) 22:10, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

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Also, we tend to use terms as they are used by mainstream academia. Thus, "deity," though derived from the same Indo-European root as Daeva, isn't considered the same word as Daeva; and even the Iranian Daeva and Hindu Deva are treated as distinct words. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:10, 23 May 2020 (UTC)