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Article #186Re: Geographic names (Re: Composer and guitarist from Belarus.)
From: Reinhold (Rey) Aman
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 01:35
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 01:35
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orangie wrote: > dinkin@fas.harvard.edu (Aaron J Dinkin) wrote in > <9k7h7m$lqk$1@news.fas.harvard.edu>: > >In alt.usage.english aloe@rev.net wrote: > >> What about Austria? It means "land to the south". I believe the > >> native name is "Oesterreich", meaning "eastern rule". > >I'm not at all convinced that "Austria" means 'land to the south'. It > >seems to me much more likely (and the OED suggests) that "Austria" is > >just an Anglicized version of "Oester[reich]" which only coincidentally > >happens to resemble a Latin root meaning "south". > too likely that "oester" doesn't mean "east" either -- land of the pearl > matrice, plump mattress? mistress of oz? > > mike Could you come up with more hair-raising nonsense, mike? Or are you just trying to be "witty"? Oesterreich (�sterreich) comes from Old High German _�star_ and _r�k_. The former means "eastern, located in the east" (as seen by the neighboring German tribes to the west) and the latter means "empire." Put them together and you get "eastern empire." Case closed. -- Reinhold (Rey) Aman Santa Rosa, CA 95402, USA http://www.sonic.net/maledicta/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10870e,a30204a70ea11862 X-Google-Attributes: gid10870e,public X-Google-Thread: 102ffd,a30204a70ea11862 X-Google-Attributes: gid102ffd,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-31 18:40:02 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!feed.news.sonic.net!typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B675D93.7B1D@sonic.net> From: "Reinhold (Rey) Aman" <aman@sonic.net> Organization: The International Maledicta Society X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: bit.listserv.geograph,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: Geographic names (Re: Composer and guitarist from Belarus.) References: <91032e08.0106081235.ab1cd88@posting.google.com> <3b401daa.17773070@news.rev.net> <9hpa9m$gce$1@nntp3.u.washington.edu> <3b45391f.11423356@news.rev.net> <3b46a838.47675199@news.saix.net> <3B46CA20.84331F4E@erols.com> <9i7i3a$kc0$1@slb2.atl.mindspring.net> <3B47A51C.7BEC51B4@sericap.com> <9i8osf$60l$1@news.fas.harvard.edu> <3b669437.4671096@news.rev.net> <9k7h7m$lqk$1@news.fas.harvard.edu> <4hI97.5$A%5.740@typhoon.hawaii.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 32 Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 01:35:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.204.136.105 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 996629703 209.204.136.105 (Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:35:03 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:35:03 PDT