jùgъ

jùgъ Grammatical information: m. o Accent paradigm: a Proto-Slavic meaning: `South, south wind'

Page in Trubačev: VIII 192-193

Old Church Slavic:

jugъ `South, south wind' [m o]

Russian:

jug `South, south wind' [m o]

Old Russian:

ugъ `South, south wind' [m o]

Czech:

jih `South' [m o]

Old Czech:

juh `south wind' [m o]

Slovak:

juh `South' [m o]

Serbo-Croatian:

jȕg `south wind' [m o];

jȕgo `south wind' [n o];

Čak. jȕgo (Vrgada, Novi, Orbanići) `south wind' [n o]

Slovene:

jùg `southwest wind, South' [m o], júga [Gens]

Bulgarian:

jug `South' [m o]

Comments: If *jùgъ is cognate with Gk. αὐγή `light, beam' < *h₂eug-, the acute tone of the root can be explained by Winter's law. On the other hand, this etmology also implies that the *j- was originally a glide, which considering the distribution of forms with and without *j- seems less likely. The ESSJa argues that *jugъ contains *iouǝ `mix, knead'. The original meaning would have been `soft', cf. -> sěverъ, of the which the older meaning is assumed to have been `sharp, severe'. This all seems highly speculative.