Etymology

Austrasia

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Today it means: An early-medieval geographic region corresponding to the homeland of the Merovingian Franks in modern western Germany, northeastern France, Belgium and parts of the Netherlands. Capital: Metz. Full definition →

Latin Austrasia ← Proto-West Germanic *austr
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  1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*austr
  2. Latin · borrowed fromAustrasia
  3. English todayAustrasia

From Latin Austrasia, from Austrasii + -ia. Austrasii, referring to the eastern Franks, is a Latinization of Frankish *Austerliudi, meaning "eastern folk"; see ostar and liuti. Alternatively, *Oster-rike has been suggested, meaning "eastern kingdom"; see Proto-West Germanic *austr and *rīkī.

Words from the same roots

Proto-West Germanic*austr all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.