Quoting Phillip Driscoll <phild@...>:
> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> >
> > BTW, did _austr-_ go ninety digrees anticlock-
> > wise and at some point? Austria and Austrasia
> > must surely refer to these being _eastern_ places,
> > not southern ones. Or are they just cases of
> > superficial latinization?
>
>
> I don't know German, but isn't the German name
> for Austria _Österreich_, which means something
> like "Eastern Country"?
Yes. More literally "Eastern Realm".
> I've always assumed that English _Austria_ was
> just a corruption of _Österreich_, rather than a
> derivation from Latin.
If it's a such corruption, it's certainly a Latinizing corruption. I seem to
recall seeing "Austria" in Latin text too, BTW - is it the normal Neolatin
form?
> P.S. In North America, we always say, "counter-
> clockwise." The only time I've heard "anticlockwise"
> was from a math teacher who was from South Africa.
I love the simplicity of Swedish _moturs_.
Andreas