FromOld Norseaustan. Equivalent toaust +‎-an.

austan

1. (pre-1938)alternative form ofausta

FromProto-Germanic*austanē(“from the east”), akin toaustr +‎-an. Ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*h₂ews-(“dawn, east”).

austan (notcomparable)

1. from theeast
2. withoutmotion, on the eastern side
3. to the east of [withgenitive]

• (from compass point):norðan,sunnan,vestan

• austanferð f(“journey from the east”)
• austangola f(“light breeze from the east”)
• austankváma f(“arrival from the east”)
• austanmaðr m(“a man from the east”)
• austanveðr n(“easterly gale”)
• austanvindr m(“east wind”)

• austr(“east”)
• austrǿnn(“eastern”)
• eystri(“easterlier”)

• Icelandic:austan
• Faroese:eystan
• Norwegian Nynorsk:austa,austan
• Old Swedish:ø̄stan
  • Swedish:östan

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “austan”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive

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