daeva

• “Asmodeus, also known as Ashmadia or Asmodai, is most likely derived from a form of Persian, the phrase aeshma-daeva, meaning demon of wrath.”

  Sepulchre

• “It may be observed that a similar change and deterioration of meaning has taken place in the Iranian languages in the case of the word daeva.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery

• “There is also a curious coincidence in the similarity in sound between daeva, the modern Persian dev, and the word devil.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery

• “But while these words, like the Sanskrit deva, retain the good meaning, daeva has come to mean "an evil spirit".”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery

• “And even though it be a mutilated form of some Iranian ancestor of the Persian Aeshma daeva, what more natural than a Median name for a demon whose obsession was accomplished upon Median soil?”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon

• “Weber thinks that this implies close acquaintance with Persian worship, a sort of tit-for-tat; for the Hindu would in that case call the holy spirit, _ahura_, of the Persian a devil, just as the Persian makes an evil spirit, _daeva_, out of the Hindu god, _deva_.”

  The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow

• “Indian _diva_, the general term for a god, is in Persian the designation of a wicked spirit, _daeva_.”

  Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

• “The Persian employment of _daeva_ for 'evil spirit' may be explained as a protest not against Indian gods, but against the deities of their own land; so the Hebrew prophets or their editors apply opprobrious names, "no-god" and other terms, to deities regarded by them as inadequate.”

  Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

• “Biblica, s.v.) finds traces of Iranian legend in the name of the demon Asmodeus (Tob., iii, 8) which is the Persian Aeshma daeva; as also in the dog = = "with the Persians a certain power over evil spirits was assigned to the dog.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon

• “Slavic ogni) was first brought to earth from heaven by a half-divine personality is (at least) Aryan, as Kuhn has shown.] [Footnote 23: Compare the _kavis_ and _ugijs_ (poets and priests) of the Veda with the evil spirits of the same names in the Avesta, like _daeva_ = _deva_.”

  The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow

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