Etymograph

English

austral

Austral comes from Latin australis ‘southern’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsteros ‘in the direction of dawn, east’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂éwsteros‘in the direction of dawn, east’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*austerosreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEauster‘the south wind’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaustralis‘southern’
  5. Englishtodayaustral

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂éwsteros‘in the direction of dawn, east’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*austerosreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEauster‘the south wind’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaustralis‘southern’
  5. Englishtodayaustral

A compound of *h₂ews- ‘to become light’ + *h₂éwss

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- ‘to become light’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwss

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsteros ‘in the direction of dawn, east’

east, 7 more

Another origin of austral

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂ews-‘dawn’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂éwsteros‘in the direction of dawn, east’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*austerosreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEauster‘south’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaustralis‘southern’
  6. Old Spanishc. 950–1500austral
  7. Spanishc. 1500–presentaustral‘southern’
  8. Englishtodayaustral

Today it means

adj Of, relating to, or coming from the south.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsteros / austral

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