From: dgkilday57
Message: 66338
Date: 2010-07-17
>Correction: Sunnyside Road follows part of the northern shore of Lake Kegonsa, with Shadyside Road on the south. The naming logic evidently reflects the absence of trees in the lake. The sun, shining from the southern (austral) side of the sky, illuminates the northern shore of the lake, but the southern shore is shaded by trees.
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> Is there any objection to *aus-tero- as 'shinier (side of the sky)', hence 'southern (side)', since the sun usually occupies this side? We have the simple connection of 'south' and 'sun' in Germanic. A certain lake in Wisconsin has Sunnyside Road along its south and Shadyside Road along its north. This would seem to clear up the connection between <auster> and <auro:ra> without recourse to such artificial idiosyncracies as the shape of Italy or the wind in the supposed Proto-Italic homeland.