Stribog

Etymology

According to the linguists T.V. Gamkrelidze and Vyach. Vs. Ivanov, etymologically the name Stribog goes back to the Indo-European word dievas-pater 'Sky-Father', whose image is restored for the Indo-European pantheon. Over time, the parts of the word changed their places, and in the course of close contacts of the Slavs with Iranian-lingual tribes (Scythians) the part dievas was replaced by Iranian baga ( bog). The Indo-European pater in Slavs became "uncle, father's brother".

The Russian linguist O. N. Trubachev considers unjustified the attempts to find in the word Stribog an Indo-European archaism or Iranism. He sees in the first part. sterti "to spread, to stretch out" and believes that Stribog was understood as a certain animated force of nature (obviously, the wind).