Aisa (Ais)
Thill, or shaft of a draught vehicle. Road now buried beneath a car park servicing the Rocca al Mare ice rink and tennis courts, with a remaining 27.4 m of dirt track facilitating travel to a nearby spruce. A tantalizing word which seems more closely related to PIE-based (h2ih3s) Hittite higga- and Sanskrit isa cognates than neighboring Lithuanian’s, iena, or other PIE ‘pole’-like words such as Eng. oar, (>Old Eng. ār-) and Anc. Gk, οἴηξ, tiller, or even ON þilja, plank or floorboard. However, Ais, is said to be a loan word from old Pskov and Novgorod Russian, but which?...