 "Dei-pátrous" was recorded by the Greek grammarian Hesychius of Alexandria (fifth or sixth century AD), in an entry of his lexicon named Δειπάτυροϛ θεὸϛ παρὰ Στυμϕαίοιϛ ("Deipáturos, a god among the Stymphians").Deipaturos was worshiped as the Sky Father ("*Dyēus-Ph₂tḗr"), a linguistic cognate of the Vedic Dyáuṣ Pitṛ́, Greek Zeus Patēr and Roman Jupiter.The region of Tymphaea was inhabited by an ancient Illyrian population that may have influenced the Greek Doric form copied by Hesychius as Δειπάτυροϛ ("Deipáturos").