"Sever" means North in most Slavic languages.

[rashka]

It would be interesting to know where the slavs got the word SEVER from which means NORTH. Some slavic countries use a different word.

Proto Indo-European for north/north wind: kēuero-, kōuero-, also skūro-?


Proto-Slavic: sěverъ /ˈsʲevʲɪr/
1.north
2.North — northern part of any region
3.Arctic, northern parts of Russia
Кра́йний Се́вер — literally: Far North, Russian territories that lie to the north of the Arctic circle.



Gothic: skura n.fem windstorm
Latin: caurus/cōrus n.masc northwest wind
Lithuanian: šiáurė n north, šiaurỹa n north wind

[east]

Old Bulgarian. сѣверъ sěverъ , primary designation of north wind. Comparison: Lit. šiaurė „north wind, north“, Lat. caurus „Northeast wind“ , English: shower „rain“

[Corvus]

There are a lot of words with the same meaning in nearly all slavic languages:

Just a few random examples:

Day = dan
fish = riba
brother = brate
heart = srce
water = voda
valley = dolina
ghost = duh
tree = drevo
price = cena

[Dacul]

Well this word seems to be taken into baltic from latin and from baltic taken into slavic.
latin caurus-baltic siaure-slavic sever
I wonder when slavs will accept this.
They do not know that Peter the Great brought an italian architect for Sankt Petersburg so he have a Roman Empire looking city.
And Sankt Petersburg is most beautiful city from north Europe,because is in North Europe,not matter what most scandos will say.

[finþaų]

Yes, it most likely descends from the Proto-Indo-European root you mentioned. Slavic langauges are - like the Indo-Iranian family - Satem langauges, as opposed to Centum ones such as Germanic and the extinct Tocharian branch. During the development of the Satem cluster, /k/ shifted to /s/ under certain circumstances.

Kēuero -> (potentially) sēuero -> (eventually) sever.

[member]

Well this word seems to be taken into baltic from latin and from baltic taken into slavic.
latin caurus-baltic siaure-slavic sever
I wonder when slavs will accept this.
They do not know that Peter the Great brought an italian architect for Sankt Petersburg so he have a Roman Empire looking city.
And Sankt Petersburg is most beautiful city from north Europe,because is in North Europe,not matter what most scandos will say.

variations of k and sh (š) is obviously a result of centumization/sentumization.

This is not an Italian loan in Lithuanian.

P.S. It's šiaurỹs, not šiaurỹa.

[rashka]

English: shower „rain“

The English word shower does seem to be related to the slavic word for north. Also to note, it seems only Serbo-Croats use the word kisha (kiša) for rain although the word used by other slavic countries, dažd, is understood.

Quote from Etymologyonline:

O.E. scur "short fall of rain, fall of missiles or blows," from W.Gmc. *skuraz (cf. O.N. skur, O.S., O.H.G. scur, Ger. Schauer, Goth. skura, in skura windis "windstorm"), from *skuro, from PIE root *kew-(e)ro- "north, north wind" (cf. L. caurus "northwest wind;" O.C.S. severu "north, north wind;" Lith. siaurus "raging, stormy," siaurys "north wind," siaure "north").