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Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by hinkley on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:53AM (#27038950)
Sometimes it’s collectively referred to as Benelux, so a name that would fit in the Netherlands does not surprise me.

It does throw me when some documentary interviews a Frenchman with a very German last name. Until I find out he lives in Alsace. That area traded hands so many times. There are some French names on the other side of the border too, I’m told.

And isn’t “Austria” just a mistranslation of the German for “The outer lands”? But we don’t talk about that any more. Not since The War.

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Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by karatinversion on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @12:03PM (#27039062)
"Eastern realm", actually. Wikipedia has some details - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria#Etymology
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Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by csunbird on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @12:06PM (#27039097)
Österreich - The Eastern Empire (my limited german)

Ost - East

Öster - To the east, easter - relative to something

Reich - Empire

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Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by Bayart on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:44PM (#27044288)
Reich has a broader meaning, similar to "realm" in English.
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Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by csunbird on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @03:07AM (#27047013)
I thought “Empire” translation would suit here, although I am not a native speaker. Realm should fit as well.
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Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by jaeh on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @02:26PM (#27040929)
During the second world war, Austria was called "Ostmark", not österreich.

And yes, "we do not talk about that" since the war ended, the Myth that we were the "First Victim of the Nazis" still perpetuates, at least in the Generation of my Grandmother (who is 94).

The only austrian resistance when the nazis entered in 1938 was a Group of International Brigades that had returned from the spanish Civil War and they all got slaughtered. You likely will not find that in a lot of history books either, somehow the ~80.000 international Volunteers of the Civil War in Spain are rarely mentioned anywhere.

No Pasaran!

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Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by jfengel on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @02:43PM (#27041227)
I think you're mixing it up with Ukraine, which can be translated as "border land".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%9... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine

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