Re: [tied] Re: Yugoslawia

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:56:55 +0000, "Daniel J. Milton"
<dmilt1896@...> wrote:

> The obvious source for the name of Yugoslavia is Serbo-Croatian,
>and indeed 'jug' is "south" in S.-C. It's apparently only in
>Slavic and Albanian in I.-E., but common Slavic, so borrowing
>Slavic ----> Albanian makes more sense than the reverse.
> Buck says "etymology dubious". Anybody here have suggestions?

Slavic *jugU or *ugU must come from *augos or *eugos/*ougos.
The only possible connection seems to be *h2aug- in Greek
augé: "sunshine"; Alb. agój "to dawn", agume "morning".

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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