Re: IE *aidh- > *aus-tr- 'hot, warm (wind)'

Den 17.07.2010 19:07, skrev dgkilday57:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57"<dgkilday57@...> wrote:
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>> 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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> Correction: Sunnyside Road follows part of the northern shore of
> LakeKegonsa, with Shadyside Road on the south. The naming logic
> evidentlyreflects the absence of trees in the lake. The sun,
> shining from the southern (austral) side of the sky, illuminates the
> northern shore ofthe lake, but the southern shore is shaded by trees.

I was going to ask about that. In this land of valleys and fjords
'Solsida', 'Sollia' etc. is the side of the valley catching sun, facing
'Myrklia', 'Skugglia' vel. sim. But that doesn't negate the sun -> south
parallel. A hillside may be facing "sunwards" and there is a "shinier"
side of a hill or a house.

(OTOH, in the valleys of Eastern Norway 'north' traditionally was the
direction of a traveller going up the valley. Accordingly, he had the
eastern mountains on his right and the western mountain on his left.
This meant that in the sidevalley of a sidevalley the cardinal
directions could be rotated 180°. But 'Sollia' was invariably the
hillside facing the sun.)

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Trond