USAS (from the

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• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root vas, to shine, and cognate to Latin

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• AURORA
• AURORA (perhaps through a form ausosa from Sansk. ush, to burn ; the common idea of " brightness " suggests a connexion with aurum, gold)

Aurora and

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• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek 'Hws,)  in Hindu mythology, the goddess of dawn . She is celebrated in some twenty hymns of the Rig Veda, and is the most graceful creation of Vedic poetry . She is borne on a shining car drawn by ruddy cows or bulls . She is the daughter of the sky and the sun is her lover . She is described as " rising resplendent as from a bath, showing her charms she comes with light . . . ever shortening the ages of men she shines forth . . . she reveals the paths of men and bestows new life . . . she opens the doors of darkness as the cows their stalls." Scarcely the name of the goddess survives to-day, so completely was she associated with the Vedism long dead and gone . See A . A . Macdonell, Vedic Mythology (Strassburg, 1897) .