Word Origin Summary

*Austrǭ is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• Easter

  English · inherited from

• Jastra

  Kashubian · derived from

• อีสเตอร์

  Thai · borrowed from

• Iista'

  Chickasaw · derived from

• E@SideNeckhigh-PalmAcross-E@SideNeckhigh-PalmAcross E@SideNeckhigh-PalmForward-E@SideNeckhigh-PalmForward

  American Sign Language · derived from

• Ijitō

  Marshallese · borrowed from

• Eostre

  English · derived from

• Uustere

  Central Franconian · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root