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Easter, air, Austria, Australia

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• Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- dawn, east

  • Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsōs Divinity of Dawn

    • Germanic *auzi

      • Germanic *Auziwandilaz Bright-Wanderer, Dawn-Wanderer, Morning Star personal name

        • East Germanic

          • Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌶𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌹𐌻 auzandil morning star (Venus), Lucifer
        • North Germanic

          • Old Norse Aurvandil
        • West Germanic

          • Old English Ēarendel

            • Quenya Eärendil
          • Old High German Orentil
          • Lombardic Auriwandalo

            • Latin Horvandillus
    • Hellenic

      • Ancient Greek ἠώς
    • Indo-Iranian *Háwšās

      • Indo-Aryan

        • Sanskrit उषस् uṣás dawn, Divinity of Dawn

          • Hindi उषा
    • Italic *auzōs

      • Latin aurōra dawn, Divinity of Dawn

        • Western Romance

          • French aurore dawn, aurora
          • Italian aurora dawn
          • Spanish aurora aurora
        • English aurora

          • English aurora australis
  • Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsro

    • Balto-Slavic

      • Lithuanian aušrà dawn, daybreak
      • Slavic *ùtro dawn

        • East Slavic

          • Russian у́тро útro morning
        • South Slavic

          • Serbo-Croatian у̏тро jȕtro morning
        • West Slavic

          • Polish jutro tomorrow
    • Germanic *Austrǭ Divinity of Spring, springtime

      • West Germanic

        • Old English Eostre festival of spring time, Divinity of Spring?, Easter

          • English Easter ^[1]
        • Old High German ōstra

          • German Ostern Easter ^[1]
  • Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsḗr

    • Hellenic *auhḗr

      • Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ āḗr morning mist, mist, wind, air, color of the sky

        • Latin āēr air

          • Sardinian aera air
          • Eastern Romance

            • Romanian aer air
          • Western Romance

            • French air air

              • English air
            • Spanish aire air
            • Italian aria air

              • English aria
        • Classical Syriac ܐܐܪ aar air, breeze
        • Ancient Greek ἀέρος aéros of the air

          • English aero-
  • Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsreh₂

    • Hellenic

      • Ancient Greek αὔρᾱ aúrā fresh air, breeze, steam

        • Latin aura air, breeze

          • Eastern Romance

            • Aromanian avrã breeze, coolness, freshness
          • Western Romance

            • Old French ore wind

              • French orage thunderstorm
            • Italian ora blow, breeze
            • Spanish orear to air
            • Spanish orate crazy person
          • English aura
  • Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsri

    • Hellenic

      • Greek αύριο ávrio tomorrow, soon
  • Proto-Indo-European *h₂wōsrih₂

    • Celtic *wārī sunrise, east

      • Insular Celtic

        • Old Irish fáir
        • Brythonic

          • Welsh gwawr dawn, daybreak
  • Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsteros of the dawn

    • Germanic *austraz east

      • West Germanic

        • Old English ēast

          • English east
          • Old French est east ^[2]

            • French est east ^[2]
            • Italian est east ^[2]
            • Spanish este east ^[2]
        • Old High German

          • German Ost east

            • German Österreich East Realm, Austria

              • Medieval Latin Austria Austria

                • English Austria
    • Italic *austeros

      • Latin auster southerly wind, south

        • Eastern Romance

          • Romanian austru dry wind from the south
        • Western Romance

          • Italian ostro southerly wind, the south
        • Latin austrālis southern

          • English Australia

            • Hawai'ian ʻAukekulelia Australia
            • Irish An Astráil (The) Australia
            • Japanese オーストラリア Ōsutoraria Australia
            • Mandarin 澳大利亞 Àodàlìyà Australia

              • Mandarin 澳(洲) Ào(zhōu) Australia (Continent)

                • Vietnamese Úc (Châu) Australia (Continent)
          • English aurora australis
  • Proto-Indo-European *h₂éh₂uso glow of dawn, gold

    • Balto-Slavic

      • Lithuanian áuksas gold
    • Latin aurum gold

      • Sardinian oru gold
      • Eastern Romance

        • Romanian aur gold
      • Western Romance

        • French or gold
        • Italian oro gold
        • Spanish oro gold

          • Navajo óola gold
      • Albanian ar gold
      • Basque urre gold
      • Old Irish ór gold

        • Irish ór gold
      • Welsh aur gold
      • Translingual Au
    • Tocharian

      • Arshian wäs gold
      • Kushean yasā gold

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Collected English words

aurora, aurora australis, Easter, air, aria, aero-, aura, east, Austria, Australia, Au

Footnotes

1. ^

   Only Germanic langauges use cognates to "Easter" to refer to the Christian holiday. Most other languages use descendants of the Hebrew פָּסַח pasách: "Passover". For example, Italian Pasqua, Russian Па́сха Pásxa, Irish Cáisc.

2. ^

   Latin words for cardinal directions, in this case oriens/levant, were replaced or supplemented in most Romance languages by borrowings from Old English. Weird.