καύστ-ειρα

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `dry' (Il.).

Dialectal forms: Att. αὗος

Derivatives: αὐονή (Archil.), cf. καλλονή, ἡδονή (Schwyzer 490, Chantr. Form. 207). - αὐαλέος `id.' (Hes.) like ἀζαλέος a. o.; also αὐσόν ξηρόν H. with s-Suffix as in ῥυσός, γαυσός etc. (Schwyzer 516, Chantr. Form. 454). On αὐσταλέος, αὐστηρός s. below. - Denom. verb: αὐαίνω, αὑαίνω (comp. with ἀπ-, ἀφ-, κατ-, καθ-αυαίνω) `dry'; αὐασμός `ds.' (Hp.; Schwyzer 493, Chantr. 141f.; αὑαψή s.v.. - αὕω ξηραίνω (Hdn.; also ἀφαύει Ar. Eq. 394, which Solmsen Unt. 277 corrects in ἀφᾱνεῖ) 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.(?) *αὖστος; but cf. the synonym καύστ-ειρα.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [880] h₂s-us- `dry'

Etymology: αὖος, αὗος is cognate with Lith. saũsas, OCS suxъ, OE sēar, which suggest PIE *saũsos `dry'. (Skt. śoṣa- (assimilated from *soṣa-) m. `the making dry' is secondary. Uncertain Alb. ʮaj `dry', Demiraj, Alb. Etym.) Zero grade * sus- in Skt. śúṣ-ka- (\< *suṣ-ka-) = Av. huška-, OP. uška- `dry' (perh. also in Lat. sūdus `dry, bright' \< * suz-d-). From this form verbs like Skt. śúṣ-yati, Latv. sust `become dry'. - Lubotsky (KZ 98, 1985, 1 - 10) argues that the Greek form goes back on * h₂sus-, as is shown by ἀυσταλέος, which has five syllables. He thinks it was a perfect ptc. of * h₂es- `be dry' (not `burn, glow'), seen in ἄζω and Lat. āreō (with redupl. * h₂e-h₂s-). Balto-Slavic and Germanic derive from * h₂sous- with sec. o-grade. This also solves the problem that PIE had no *a. -- S. also αὐχμός.

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