austr

Old Norse

Alternative forms
  • ᛅᚢᛋᛏᚱ (austr) – Runic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *austrą, whence also Old English ēast, Old High German ōst, ōstar.

Noun

austr n

  1. east

Declension
  Declension of austr (strong a-stem, singular only)
neuter singular
indefinite definite
nominative austr austrit
accusative austr austrit
dative austri austrinu
genitive austrs austrsins

Coordinate terms
  • aust- (“east-”)
  • austan (“from the east”)
  • austarla (“in the east”)
  • austrǿnn (“eastern”)
  • eystri (“more eastern”)

Descendants
  • Icelandic: austur
  • Faroese: eystur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: aust, auster; (dialectal) aust’u, aust’e
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: aust
  • Medelpadian: yster, yst
  • Old Swedish: ø̄ster
  • Old Danish: øst
    • Danish: øster, øst
      • Norwegian Bokmål: øst
        • → Norwegian Nynorsk: øst

References
  • “austr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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