英语词汇“Indo-European root: aus-”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

Indo-European root: aus-

释义

‌‌aus-
To shine.
Derivatives include east, Easter, and aurora.

1. east, from Old English ēast, east (< "the direction of the sunrise");
2. ostmark, from Old High German ōstan, east. Both a and b from Germanic *aust‑.
1. eastern, from Old English ēasterne, eastern;
2. Ostrogoth, from Late Latin ostro‑, eastern. Both a and b from Germanic *austra‑.
Easter, from Old English ēastre, Easter, from Germanic *austrōn‑, dawn.
Possibly in Latin auster, the south wind, formally identical to the Germanic forms in 2 and 3, but the semantics are unclear austral, Austro-¹.
Probably suffixed form *ausōs‑, dawn, also Indo-European goddess of the dawn.
1. aurora, from Latin aurōra, dawn;
2. eo-, Eos; eosin, from Greek ēōs, dawn.

[Pokorny au̯es‑ 86.]

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