austr
Old Norse edit
Alternative forms edit
- ᛅᚢᛋᛏᚱ (austr) — Runic form
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *austrą, whence also Old English ēast, Old High German ōst, ōstar.
Noun edit
austr n
Declension edit
Declension of austr (strong a-stem, singular only)
Coordinate terms edit
Related terms edit
- aust- (“east-”)
- austan (“from the east”)
- austarla (“in the east”)
- austrǿnn (“eastern”)
- eystri (“more eastern”)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: austur
- Faroese: eystur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: aust, auster; (dialectal) aust’u, aust’e
- → Norwegian Bokmål: aust
- Medelpadian: yster, yst
- Old Swedish: ø̄ster
- Swedish: öster
- Old Danish: øst
References edit
- “austr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press