English
Ostrobothnia
Ostrobothnia comes from Latin Ostrobothnia, and goes back to Swedish Österbotten.
- SwedishmodernÖsterbotten
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEOstrobothnia
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- SwedishmodernÖsterbotten
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEOstrobothnia
- Englishtodaysame form
A compound of öster ‘eastern’ + botten ‘bottom, basin’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- ‘to dawn, become light’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér ‘in the direction of dawn, east’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsteros ‘in the direction of dawn, east’
Proto-Germanic *austraz ‘east, eastern’
Proto-Germanic *austrą ‘east’
Old Norse austr ‘east’
Old Swedish ø̄ster
Swedish öster ‘eastern’
Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- ‘deep’
Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn ‘bottom’
Proto-Germanic *butmaz ‘bottom’
Old Norse botn ‘bottom’
Old Swedish butn
Swedish botten ‘bottom, basin’
Every English word from Swedish Österbotten
Today it means
name A region of Finland, on the east coast of the Gulf of Bothnia.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Swedish Österbotten / Ostrobothnia