Word 'AGE' is a very important one: it is surrounded by words with semantics of ‘day’ (‘sunlight part of the day’, ‘daytime’, ‘lifetime’) and ‘south’ (‘the side of the world where the sun is at its zenith’), found in languages present all around the Globe:

юга, yugа (an era in the Indian Vedas; according to Vedas, there were four yugas (sunlight epochs), each followed by global cataclysms (floods, volcanic eruptions, a temporary end of the sun(light), as skies were completely covered with thick layers of volcanic dust);
[ug] (Sumerian) - sunlight, sun, heat;
[югъ; yug] (Old Georgian), [йагъ; jag] (Megrelian) – day;
[юг; yug] (Udmurt) - light;
jug (Slovenian), юг [yug] (Rus.), etc. – south in most Slavic languages (in Ukrainian: пiвдень – south, literally, ‘midday’, same as Ital. mezzogiorno – south, literally, ‘midday’);
ужин [uzhin] (Rus.), у́жина, ю́жина [uzhina, juzhina] (Old Bulg.), у̏жина [uzhina] (Old Serbian), júžinа (Old? Slovenian), juzyna (Old Polish), Jause (Old German dialectic) – dinner, initially lunch, snack, midday meal; uzsonna (Hung.) – a snack;
hego, egu (Basque) – south;
egun (Basque) – day; eguzki (Basque) – sun;
gün (Turk.), көн [kön] (Tatar) – day;
günəş (Azeri) - sun, sunlight;
güney (Turk.), көньяк [könyak] (Tatar) – south.
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юкъ [juk] (Ingush) - period of time; ахка [ahka] (Ingush) - summer;
युग [yug] (Hindi) - era, epoch, period, eon, aeon, age, day;
ug, ud, u (Sumerian) - time, moment, period, day;
ยุค [Yukh] (Thai) - era, epoch, age, day;
ыгкь, jahki (Saami) – year;
ije (Erzia), ij (Mari) – year;
iga (Est.), igā (Livonian), itšä (Votic), ikä (Fin.), igä (Izhorian, Chudian, Vepssian), igäü (Karelian) – age, years, life, lifetime;
aeg, aja, aega (Est.), aika (Fin., Votic), āiga (Livonian), aiga (Izhorian), aigu (Karelian), aig (Chudian, Vepssian) – time, epoche, period, century, age, eternity; day (e.g., head aega! (Est.) – good day!);
aja (Est.) – of time (e.g., ajalugu – history, literally, "time tale", compare to strange name "Повесть временных лет", ‘The Tale of Bygone Years’, literally, ‘The Tale of TIME(D) Years’);
ajat (Fin.) – times; aeglane (Est.) – slow, unhurried; aeg-ajalt (Est.) – from time to time, at times;
age (Eng.), age (Fr.), aetas (Lat.), etá (Ital.) – age, epoch, time, period of time; ετος [etos] (Gr.) – year;
आज [aaj, aadz] (Hindi), अद्य [adya] (Sanskrit) - today, at present time;
oggi [odzi] (It.), hoje [ozh] (Port.), hoy [oy] (Sp.), heute [hoyte] (Ger.), hodie [od'je] (Lat.) - today, at present time;N.B. in French this same -hui has been retained in a phonetically distorted aujourd'hui ~ au jour de hui - "at present day";
[hayom] הַיוֹם (Herbrew) - today, at present time;
[hayim] חַיִים (Herbrew), [haya] (Arabic), hayat (Turkish), həyat (Azeri), hayot (Uzbek) – life;
[gaya-] (Avest.) - life, lifetime;
ay (Turk., Azeri), oy (Uzbek), aý (Turkmen), ай (Tatar, Kazakh, Kyrgyz) - a month, a moon;
[ayu] (Avest.) – age; [ayu] (Sanskrit) – life;
आयु [aayu] (Hindi) - age, life, life-period;
อายุ [hāyu] (Thai) - age, lifespan, year;
[ajuq, ajuk] (Inuit) – for a long time (e.g., [tussajuq] – he sees for a long time).
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aegu(ma) (Est.) – to age, to become obsolete, to get to the end of the lifetime;
aged (Eng.) - that became old;
ago (Eng.) – back in time;
[ug, u.gu, ug.ga] (Sumer.) - death; [ug-] (Sumer.) - to die.
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юга, yugа (an era in the Indian Vedas; according to Vedas, there were four yugas (sunlight epochs), each followed by global cataclysms (floods, volcanic eruptions, a temporary end of the sun(light), as skies were completely covered with thick layers of volcanic dust);
[ug] (Sumerian) - sunlight, sun, heat;
[югъ; yug] (Old Georgian), [йагъ; jag] (Megrelian) – day;
[юг; yug] (Udmurt) - light;
jug (Slovenian), юг [yug] (Rus.), etc. – south in most Slavic languages (in Ukrainian: пiвдень – south, literally, ‘midday’, same as Ital. mezzogiorno – south, literally, ‘midday’);
ужин [uzhin] (Rus.), у́жина, ю́жина [uzhina, juzhina] (Old Bulg.), у̏жина [uzhina] (Old Serbian), júžinа (Old? Slovenian), juzyna (Old Polish), Jause (Old German dialectic) – dinner, initially lunch, snack, midday meal; uzsonna (Hung.) – a snack;
hego, egu (Basque) – south;
egun (Basque) – day; eguzki (Basque) – sun;
gün (Turk.), көн [kön] (Tatar) – day;
günəş (Azeri) - sun, sunlight;
güney (Turk.), көньяк [könyak] (Tatar) – south.
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юкъ [juk] (Ingush) - period of time; ахка [ahka] (Ingush) - summer;
युग [yug] (Hindi) - era, epoch, period, eon, aeon, age, day;
ug, ud, u (Sumerian) - time, moment, period, day;
ยุค [Yukh] (Thai) - era, epoch, age, day;
ыгкь, jahki (Saami) – year;
ije (Erzia), ij (Mari) – year;
iga (Est.), igā (Livonian), itšä (Votic), ikä (Fin.), igä (Izhorian, Chudian, Vepssian), igäü (Karelian) – age, years, life, lifetime;
aeg, aja, aega (Est.), aika (Fin., Votic), āiga (Livonian), aiga (Izhorian), aigu (Karelian), aig (Chudian, Vepssian) – time, epoche, period, century, age, eternity; day (e.g., head aega! (Est.) – good day!);
aja (Est.) – of time (e.g., ajalugu – history, literally, "time tale", compare to strange name "Повесть временных лет", ‘The Tale of Bygone Years’, literally, ‘The Tale of TIME(D) Years’);
ajat (Fin.) – times; aeglane (Est.) – slow, unhurried; aeg-ajalt (Est.) – from time to time, at times;
age (Eng.), age (Fr.), aetas (Lat.), etá (Ital.) – age, epoch, time, period of time; ετος [etos] (Gr.) – year;
आज [aaj, aadz] (Hindi), अद्य [adya] (Sanskrit) - today, at present time;
oggi [odzi] (It.), hoje [ozh] (Port.), hoy [oy] (Sp.), heute [hoyte] (Ger.), hodie [od'je] (Lat.) - today, at present time;
[hayom] הַיוֹם (Herbrew) - today, at present time;
[hayim] חַיִים (Herbrew), [haya] (Arabic), hayat (Turkish), həyat (Azeri), hayot (Uzbek) – life;
[gaya-] (Avest.) - life, lifetime;
ay (Turk., Azeri), oy (Uzbek), aý (Turkmen), ай (Tatar, Kazakh, Kyrgyz) - a month, a moon;
[ayu] (Avest.) – age; [ayu] (Sanskrit) – life;
आयु [aayu] (Hindi) - age, life, life-period;
อายุ [hāyu] (Thai) - age, lifespan, year;
[ajuq, ajuk] (Inuit) – for a long time (e.g., [tussajuq] – he sees for a long time).
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aegu(ma) (Est.) – to age, to become obsolete, to get to the end of the lifetime;
aged (Eng.) - that became old;
ago (Eng.) – back in time;
[ug, u.gu, ug.ga] (Sumer.) - death; [ug-] (Sumer.) - to die.
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