austan
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Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse austan. Equivalent to aust + -an.
Adverb
[edit]austan
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *austanē (“from the east”), akin to austr + -an. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn, east”).
Adverb
[edit]austan (not comparable)
Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- austanferð f (“journey from the east”)
- austangola f (“light breeze from the east”)
- austankváma f (“arrival from the east”)
- austanmaðr m (“a man from the east”)
- austanveðr n (“easterly gale”)
- austanvindr m (“east wind”)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: austan
- Faroese: eystan
- Norwegian Nynorsk: austa, austan
- Old Swedish: ø̄stan
- Swedish: östan
References
[edit]- “austan”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Categories:
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms suffixed with -an
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk adverbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk pre-1938 forms
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Norse terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ews- (dawn)
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms suffixed with -an (ablative adverb)
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse adverbs