Neustria

See also: neustria, nêustria, and Nêustria

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin Neustria. An origin from *Ni-oster-rike, meaning "northeastern kingdom"^[1] or "not the eastern kingdom"^[2] has been proposed; see Proto-West Germanic *austr and *rīkī, also Gothic and Proto-Norse ni. For further origins, compare Austrasia. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnjuːstɹɪə/

Proper noun

Neustria

(historical) The western part of the Frankish empire, corresponding roughly to modern-day northern France.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  There shall a Lion from the sea-bord wood / Of Neustria come roring, with a crew / Of hungry whelpes […]

Derived terms

Neustrian

Translations

western part of the Frankish empire

French: Neustrie (fr) f
German: Neustrien
Portuguese: Nêustria f
Spanish: Neustria f

References

^ Taylor, William Cooke (1848), A Manual of Ancient and Modern History, New York Public Library: D. Appleton, page 342
^ Meijer et al. (eds.), Nordisk familjebok, Ny, rev. och rikt illustrerad upplaga (1913), p. 841.

Anagrams

austrine, instaure, resiaunt, ruinates, taurines, uranites, urinates

[1] Taylor, William Cooke (1848), A Manual of Ancient and Modern History, New York Public Library: D. Appleton, page 342

[2] Meijer et al. (eds.), Nordisk familjebok, Ny, rev. och rikt illustrerad upplaga (1913), p. 841.

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