(s)kāi-, (d-), (t-)

    (s)kāi-, (d-), (t-)

    English meaning: shining, bright

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “hell, leuchtend”

    Material: O.Ind. kētú- m. “Lichterscheinung, Helle, Bild” (= Goth. haidus), kēta- m. “mark, token, sign”, kētana-m “body, Erkennungszeichen”, citrá- “augenfällig, lovely, superb, pretty, splendid, bright”, n. “apparition” = Av. čiϑra- “augenfällig, clear, bright” (ablaut. with O.H.G. heitar); Lat. probably caesius “γλαυκός, from den Augen” (from *kait- or *kaid-to- from, compare Lith. skáistas) and caelum ‘sky, heaven” (*kaid-lo- or *kaid-, *kait-slo-, compare with -rforms dt.heiter, Lith. skaid-rùs, skáidrus); Goth. haidus “kind of and Weise” (originally *”lichte apparition”), O.Ice. heiðr m. “honour, earnings”, O.E. hüd, hǣ d, O.H.G. heit ‘stand, rank, kind of” (Ger. suffix -heit); O.Ice. heið n. “clear, bright sky, heaven” (: O.Ind. kēta- m.), heið-r adj. “cheerful, uncloudy”; O.H.G. heitar “cheerful, gleaming (originally from the cloudless sky, heaven)”, O.S. hēdar “cheerful”, O.E. hüdor ds., n. “cheeriness of sky”; Lith. skaidrùs, skáidrus “bright, clear, bright”; Ltv. skaĩdrs ds., “clean”; Lith. skáistas, skaistùs “bright”; different (to skēid- under S. 921) Trautmann 263. Maybe Alb. skaj “edge, end”

    References: WP. II 537 f., WH. I 130f., 133;

    See also: compare kůi-3 (above S. 519) and sk̂üi- (under).