Re: Semantic fields

Don't forget the early association with the Right and the South and the Left
and the North. The North was early on considered the direction of the land
of the dead.

> Are not
>

Perun(Slavic)-Perkunas(Baltic)-Pirwa(Hittite)-Parjanya(Vedic)-Fjorgyn/Tor(Sc
and.

> ) cognates to the above words? "First (among the gods)" seems to be a good
> epithet for the Sky God.

These gods take their root from *PER- "to rub"

Interestingly enough, the Norse god Freyr may take his name from Pro-u-io-s
"he that is first"