Re: Geographic names (Re: Composer and guitarist from Belarus.)

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From: aloe
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 07:32

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On 2 Aug 2001 11:23:53 -0700, ranjit_mathews@yahoo.com (M. Ranjit
Mathews) wrote:

>Aaron J Dinkin <dinkin@fas.harvard.edu> wrote in message news:<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".
>
>Ostmark was "eastern rule" (Eastern March, to be precise). It was
>first called  Osterreich ("eastern kingdom) under the rule of the
>House of Babenberg in the late 10th century.
>
>> 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".

Consider that "aust" means "east" in Norwegian. Also, "Telemark" means
"frozen ground", not "far land" or "the place where they ring you up
to sell stuff".

-- Buster <http://www.rev.net/people/aloe/geography>

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Subject: Re: Geographic names (Re: Composer and guitarist from Belarus.)
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