Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/auštrā́ˀ

This Proto-Balto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
    Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér
    Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
    Proto-Balto-Slavic *auštrā́ˀ

    From Proto-Indo-European *h₂éws-r̥-h₂ ~ *h₂us-r-és, from *h₂ews- (“dawn; to dawn”).[1][2] Cognate with Sanskrit उस्रा (usrā́, “dawn, morning”), Ancient Greek αὔρᾱ (aúrā, “morning air”), and perhaps further Proto-Germanic *Austrǭ (“Easter”), and Albanian err (“darkness”).

    Noun

    *auštrā́ˀ f

    1. dawn, morning

    Alternative reconstructions

    • *aušrā́ˀ, *uštrā́ˀ

    Descendants

    • East Baltic:
      • Latvian: àustra, aũstra
      • Lithuanian: aušrà, (dialectal) auštrà
    • Proto-Slavic: *ùtro (see there for further descendants)

    References

    1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015), “aušra”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 72
    2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ȕtro”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 510-1
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