Hesta

Walloon

Ultimately from Frankish *Harjastalja (“army camp”), possibly via Medieval Latin Charistalius, Harastallius.^[1]^[2]

Hesta

^ Haubrichs, Wolfgang (2020) “The Multilingualism of the Early Middle Ages: Evidence from Peripheral Regions of the Regnum orientalium Francorum.”, in Robert Gallagher, Edward Roberts, Francesca Tinti, editors, The Languages of Early Medieval Charters: Latin, Germanic Vernaculars, and the Written Word., Leiden, →ISBN, page 85f.
^ Gysseling, Maurits (2013), Herstal in the Toponymical Dictionary of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Northern France and West Germany (before 1226).