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In article ,
Wolf K wrote:

I always specify that Austria is in Europe.

Odd that in one country's name "Austr-" means east, and in another's
south.

-- Richard

In message , Richard Tobin
writes:
In article ,
Wolf K wrote:

I always specify that Austria is in Europe.

Odd that in one country's name "Austr-" means east, and in another's
south.

-- Richard
[There would be benefits if you put the "-- " (including the space) on a
line by itself.]

I think in the former case it's from Germanic (they spell it with an O;
I'm not sure how or when it got changed to an A in the Anglicised
version), whereas the latter is from Latin.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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