Re: CHAT: Visigoths (was: YADPT (D=Dutch))

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"?

I've always assumed that English _Austria_ was
just a corruption of _Österreich_, rather than a
derivation from Latin.

--Ph. D.


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.

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