From: Tavi
Message: 66340
Date: 2010-07-17
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:
>I disagree. Latin <Auster> is rather a wind than a point on the compass and it looks inextricably related to Slavic *u:strj- 'summer'.
> 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.
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