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.

Indeed. Some of the words cognate to Lat. "dexter" (right) have "southern"
meaning:
Indic "daksinas" - clever, right(side), south
Irish "dess" - right(side), south

Besides that I've seen references to a hypothesis about the connection of
Balto-Slavic words for North "sever" with IE *seu- 'left'. If this supposition
is correct we have for Slavic:
"sever" (north) - "shuj" (left)

I wonder, are there other ethymological connection between South and Right,
North and Left, East and Forward (Front), West and Back?

> > 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"

I have never met such ethymology. Please give the list of cognates of *PER- "to
rub" and some explanation. Is rubbing a way of producing thunder and lightnings?
Or what?

Alexander