αὖος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[dry]] (Il.).<br />Dialectal forms: Att. <b class="b3">αὗος</b><br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">αὐονή</b> (Archil.), cf. <b class="b3">καλλονή</b>, <b class="b3">ἡδονή</b> (Schwyzer 490, Chantr. Form. 207). - <b class="b3">αὐαλέος</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Hes.) like <b class="b3">ἀζαλέος</b> a. o.; also <b class="b3">αὐσόν ξηρόν</b> H. with <b class="b2">s-</b>Suffix as in <b class="b3">ῥυσός</b>, <b class="b3">γαυσός</b> etc. (Schwyzer 516, Chantr. Form. 454). On <b class="b3">αὐσταλέος</b>, <b class="b3">αὐστηρός</b> s. below. - Denom. verb: <b class="b3">αὐαίνω</b>, <b class="b3">αὑαίνω</b> (comp. with <b class="b3">ἀπ-</b>, <b class="b3">ἀφ-</b>, <b class="b3">κατ-</b>, <b class="b3">καθ-αυαίνω</b>) [[dry]]; <b class="b3">αὐασμός</b> <b class="b2">ds.</b> (Hp.; Schwyzer 493, Chantr. 141f.; <b class="b3">αὑαψή</b> s.v.. - <b class="b3">αὕω ξηραίνω</b> (Hdn.; also <b class="b3">ἀφαύει</b> Ar. Eq. 394, which Solmsen Unt. 277 corrects in <b class="b3">ἀφανεῖ</b>) looks like a primary verb, but may be denom. (Schwyzer 723). Two adj. with related meaning: <b class="b3">αὐσταλέος</b> [[dried up]] (Od.; cf. <b class="b3">αὑαλέος</b> above and Bechtel Lex. s. v.) and <b class="b3">αὐστηρός</b> [[hard]] (Hp.) presuppose a verbal adj.(?) <b class="b3">*αὖστος</b>; but cf. the synonym <b class="b3">καύστ-ειρα</b>.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [880] <b class="b2">h₂s-us-</b> [[dry]]<br />Etymology: <b class="b3">αὖος</b>, <b class="b3">αὗος</b> is cognate with Lith. <b class="b2">saũsas</b>, OCS [[suxъ]], OE [[sēar]] , which suggest PIE <b class="b2">*saũsos</b> [[dry]]. (Skt. <b class="b2">śoṣa-</b> (assimilated from <b class="b2">*soṣa-</b>) m. <b class="b2">the making dry</b> is secondary. Uncertain Alb. [[ʮaj]] [[dry]], Demiraj, Alb. Etym.) Zero grade <b class="b2">*sus-</b> in Skt. <b class="b2">śúṣ-ka-</b> (< <b class="b2">*suṣ-ka-</b>) = Av. <b class="b2">huška-</b>, OP. <b class="b2">uška-</b> [[dry]] (perh. also in Lat. [[sūdus]] [[dry]], [[bright]] < <b class="b2">*suz-d-</b>). From this form verbs like Skt. <b class="b2">śúṣ-yati</b>, Latv. [[sust]] [[become dry]]. - Lubotsky (KZ 98, 1985, 1 - 10) argues that the Greek form goes back on <b class="b2">*h₂sus-</b>, as is shown by <b class="b3">ἀυσταλέος</b>, which has five syllables. He thinks it was a perfect ptc. of <b class="b2">*h₂es-</b> [[be dry]] (not [[burn]], [[glow]]), seen in <b class="b3">ἄζω</b> and Lat. [[areo]] (with redupl. <b class="b2">*h₂e-h₂s-</b>). Balto-Slavic and Germanic derive from <b class="b2">*h₂sous-</b> with sec. <b class="b2">o-</b>grade. This also solves the problem that PIE had no <b class="b2">*a</b>. -- S. also [[αὐχμός]].