eastern

Meaning

Adjective

• Of, facing, situated in, or related to the east.
• Blowing from the east; easterly.
• Oriental.

Origin

• From Middle English esturne, esterne, from Old English ēasterne ("eastern"), from Proto-Germanic *austrōnijaz ("eastern"), from Proto-Indo-European ("eastern"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- ("dawn, east"). Cognate with Old Saxon and Old High German ōstrōni ("eastern"), Old Norse austrœnn ("eastern").
• Morphologically east + -ern.