Gold in PIE

Gold in PIE

gold in Old English gold, from Proto-Germanic *gulth-, from PIE
*ghel-/*ghol-. Slavic zlato and zoloto, Latvian zelts. The stem is
related to Latvian dzeltens - yellow, Lithuanian geltonas and
z^a:lias (green), Russian zielionyj (green), z^ioltyj...

Golden in Old English - gyldan, so gold is positively related to
*ghel-, which is preserved in Lithuanian as geltonas - yellow.

Logical meaning of zelts is yellowness. Such nouns, adjectives,
passive participles are very frequent ancient Baltic lexis.:

Vil-t-is (hope, vil- - will, from vil-t-as)
Bal-t-as (white, Bel-yj in Slavic)
Mil-t-ai ((plural)flour, from ancient participle *mil-t-as (milled),
from Pr.B. *mel-tei / *mil-tei (to mill))
auks^tas (high, from auks^tus - growy, from aug-ti (to grow))

"Second" gold could be related to Lithuanian auksas, old Prussian
ausis, Toch. B yasa, Latin aurum, and Armenian ___OSKI___. Aurum is
derivative from aurare (to shine, to dawn (Aurora, Lith. Aus^ra).

Au-ra-re is clear Au-ro-ra is clear too. What do we see in
Lithuanian? Au-s^-ti, Au-s^-ra. Au-s^- meaning

is "to shine, to dawn", but Au-ks- has suffix -ks-, which is similar
with -gs-, -gz^-, -gz-, for ex.: Lith. z^vai-gz^-d-e, Latv. zvai-gz-
n-e, Slavic zve-z-da, Old Prussian Swaixtix (Zvai-ks-t-ik-s) - god
of the

stars. Slavic is more palatalized Baltic branch, so -x- is
palatalized to -z-. Meaning of zvezda is star, logical meaning -
shining thing, from Lith. dial. S^vei-s-tei (to shine), modern Lith.
s^vie-s-ti. Auksas has the same suffix as zhvaigzhde and other words
(these are very archaic and infrequent in Baltic languages).

So, Proto-Baltic stem for Au-s^-ti was Au-ks-tei, Auksas as
derivative was isolated, but the general verb au-x-tei was
palatalized to the au-s^-, and Auks(t)ra became Aus^(t)ra. Also i
think Latin ex- is related to PIE and in Lithuanian it was
palatalized to is^ (from, ex-), Slavic iz, so ex- was usable in PIE
as in, an and etc...

PS.: Armenian o-sk-i proves PIE stem au-x-.

Have any ideas?

Vytautas