Etimologijos smulkmenos (la. vaîgs ‘veidas; skruostas’ ir lie. áušti / la. aũksts ‘šaltas’)

doi:10.15388/baltistica.48.1.2167

Etimologijos smulkmenos (la. vaîgs ‘veidas; skruostas’ ir lie. áušti / la. aũksts ‘šaltas’)

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title:	Etimologijos smulkmenos (la. vaîgs ‘veidas; skruostas’ ir lie. áušti / la. aũksts ‘šaltas’)
alternative title:	On the etymology of Latv. vaîgs ‘cheek; face’ and Lith. áušti ‘to be getting cold’ / Latv. aũksts ‘cold’
author:	Ostrowski Norbert
journal title:	Baltistica
volume:	48
issue:	1
date of publication :	2013
pages:	75-80
ISSN:	0132-6503
eISSN:	2345-0045
DOI:	10.15388/baltistica.48.1.2167
language:	Lithuanian
journal language:	Lithuanian
abstract in English:	The paper consists of two parts. The first one presents the etymology of the Latv. vaîgs‘cheek; arch. face’, that comes from vaid-g-s < vaid-g-a-s, where vaid- (cf. OLith. vaĩdas‘picture; sign’) is connected to IE weid-‘erblicken’. The semantic change ‘face’ > ‘cheek’ is a case of pars pro toto, cf. Pol. lico ‘face’ and policzek ‘cheek’ < pół ‘half’ and lico ‘face’. The second part explains the origin of the Lith. áušti ‘to be getting cold’ / Latv. aũksts ‘cold’ and their connection to Lith. vėsùs / Latv. vēss ‘cool’. By transferring Lith. áušti / Latv. aũksts and Lith. vėsùs / Latv. vēss to the IE plane we get respectively h2ewh1-s- and h2weh1-s-, i.e. the case of the “Schwebeablaut”. However, due to the lack of exact comparanda for Lith. áušti and Latv. aũksts in other IE languages we have to admit that both Lith. áušti and Latv. áũksts are Baltic innovations and the reconstruction *h2ewh1-s- may be used only for "didactic" purposes.
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type:	journal article
subtype:	academic paper