Masculine
Meaning
- (masculine, no-plural, strong) East
- (masculine, no-plural, strong, with-definite-article) The territory of the former GDR.
- (broadly, masculine, no-plural, strong) anything that is Eastern, e.g. Eastern Europe, Asia
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Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɔstən/
Etymology
In summary
From Ost or Old High German ostan, from Proto-Germanic *austrą, related to *ausos (“dawn”), compare Latin aurora, and Latin auster, which, probably due to a re-orientation, means "South".
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