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aust

Pronunciation: [àwst]

“aust” is a Latvian word. Its 7 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to dawn (to become light at the beginning of the day) (of time period)
  2. to dawn, to appear slowly (in the sky) (of light, light sources)
  3. to appear, to begin
  4. to come back, to reach awareness
  5. to weave (to produce fabric from thread in a loom)
  6. to weave (to produce fabric, cloth for a certain object; to produce fabric, cloth with certain patterns)
  7. to weave (to make a mesh, a net, a web; also of spiders)

Etymology

From an earlier *aus-ti, from Proto-Baltic *aus-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“to shine”). Cognates include Lithuanian aũšti (< *austi), Old Church Slavonic за устра (za ustra, “early in the morning”), Hittite au(š)- (“to see, to watch”), Sanskrit उच्छति (uccháti, “to dawn”), उषस् (uṣás), उसृ (usṛ́, “dawn, morning”), Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs) (< *h₂éwsōs), Latin aurōra (< *ausōsā).

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