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How would you pronounce *Dyḗus? How do the symbols work?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe...

'y' does not appear in that list.

Here is the complete list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA

They are IPA symbols and the asterisk is silent but tells you all Indoeuropean roots started as phone dialing shortcodes.

> How would you pronounce *Dyḗus?

Day-us

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