αὖος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[dry]] (Il.).<br />Dialectal forms: Att. [[αὗος]]<br />Derivatives: [[αὐονή]] (Archil.), cf. [[καλλονή]], [[ἡδονή]] (Schwyzer 490, Chantr. Form. 207). - [[αὐαλέος]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (Hes.) like [[ἀζαλέος]] a. o.; also <b class="b3">αὐσόν ξηρόν</b> H. with <b class="b2">s-</b>Suffix as in [[ῥυσός]], [[γαυσός]] etc. (Schwyzer 516, Chantr. Form. 454). On [[αὐσταλέος]], [[αὐστηρός]] s. below. - Denom. verb: [[αὐαίνω]], [[αὑαίνω]] (comp. with <b class="b3">ἀπ-</b>, <b class="b3">ἀφ-</b>, <b class="b3">κατ-</b>, <b class="b3">καθ-αυαίνω</b>) [[dry]]; [[αὐασμός]] <b class="b2">ds.</b> (Hp.; Schwyzer 493, Chantr. 141f.; [[αὑαψή]] s.v.. - <b class="b3">αὕω ξηραίνω</b> (Hdn.; also [[ἀφαύει]] Ar. Eq. 394, which Solmsen Unt. 277 corrects in [[ἀφανεῖ]]) looks like a primary verb, but may be denom. (Schwyzer 723). Two adj. with related meaning: [[αὐσταλέος]] [[dried up]] (Od.; cf. [[αὑαλέος]] above and Bechtel Lex. s. v.) and [[αὐστηρός]] [[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: [[αὖος]], [[αὗος]] 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. [[the making dry]] 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]] (perhaps 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 [[ἀυσταλέος]], which has five syllables. He thinks it was a perfect ptc. of <b class="b2">*h₂es-</b> [[be dry]] (not [[burn]], [[glow]]), seen in [[ἄζω]] 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]].