[[dawn]] | [[birch]] *** ## Biblio [[serith-xausos]] [[friedrich1970]]:27 [[mallory-adams-d1977]]:65 [[gamkrelidze-ivanov-vy1995]]:522-3;532-3 > Xausós is connected with birch trees. The birch is one of the first trees to reawaken in the spring, and thus an apt symbol for a dawn and spring goddess. Its white bark connects it with purity (Gamkrelidze and Ivanov, 1995, 522-3). According to Paul Friedrich (in Mallory and Adams, 1997, 65), "The birch was a symbol for the feminine and specifically for young, virginal femininity in PIE times." He also suggests that PIE *bherHxgyos "birch" might have been formed from a root meaning "bright," or that the two might have become connected via folk etymology (Friedrich, 1970, p. 27). The Hittite parku "ritually pure; innocent" comes from the Proto-Indo-European word for birch, and in the Baltic languages "birch" has connections with purity and innocence (Gamkrelidze and Ivanov, 1995, 532-3).<br>==[[serith-xausos]]|[[friedrich1970]]:27|[[mallory-adams-d1977]]:65|[[gamkrelidze-ivanov-vy1995]]:522-3;532-3|==