On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:59:01 -0000, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
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S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
>--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>...<jutrzenka> (also <justrzenka>), still used
>as a literary word for "the morning star" or "dawn, daybreak". What's
>interesting about it is its very close relationship to Lith.
>Aus^rine., since ju(s)trzenka < *justrIn- < *aus-r-in-. Of course,
>its a derivative of *aus-ro- 'dawn, morning', from the "Eos/Aurora"
>root *h2aus-. I haven't come across <dziennica> or the like with any
>kind of astronomical or mythological meaning.
>
>By the way, why has the RUKI failed in Slavic *(j)u(s)tro < *aus-ro-?
>Sonorants seeme not to block it. Why not *(j)uxro? Sounds nice :).
If indeed the /t/ is secondary (ausro- > austro-), it still depends on
the relative order of the soundlaws. Following /t/ does block the
RUKI rule. We could have *ausro -[RUKI]-> *aus^ro- -[t-insertion]->
*aus^tro -[un-RUKI]-> *austro...
It is remarkable that in Sanskrit a following /r/ *does* block RUKI
(usrá- "matutinal"). More importantly, in Sanskrit the word us.ás
"dawn" (and vas- "to shine") are among a small group of words that
have an irregular sandhi /s/ ~ /t/ (the others are vas- "to dwell",
ghas- "to eat", ma:s- "month" [cf. the *-t in month], and the ptc. pf.
act. [cf. Grk. -(F)ot-]). This suggests other possibilities, like
*aut-ró- or even *aut-tró- > *austró- (I'm supposing -st- < -tt- is
not subject to RUKI, if not because the development came too late (as
in the case of Slavic *k^ > s), then simply because of the blocking
effect of /t/).