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单词 ostman
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Ostmann.

Brit. /ˈɒstman/, U.S. /ˈɑstˌmæn/
Inflections: Plural Ostmen.
Forms: Middle English–1500s 1700s– Ostman, 1600s Oostman, 1600s Oustman.
Origin: A borrowing from Icelandic. Etymons: Icelandic Austmann-, Austmaðr.
Etymology: < Old Icelandic Austmann-, Austmaðr man of the East < aust- (see east n.1) + maðr man n.1 Compare post-classical Latin Ostmanni (from 12th cent. in British sources (see below), also as Osmannus, Oustmannus):a1188 Giraldus Cambrensis Topogr. Hibernica (Harl.) iii. xliii in Opera (1867) V. 187 Dicti sunt autem Ostmanni lingua ipsorum, corrupto quodam Saxonico, quasi orientales homines.
Now historical.
Usually in plural. Any one of the Norsemen who invaded and settled in towns on the East coast of Ireland around the 10th cent.; (also) a descendant of these people, an Irishman of Scandinavian descent.
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Ostman1264
Danishryc1470
1264 in J. T. Gilbert Hist. & Munic. Documents Ireland (1870) 149 (MED) Hodo Macfoyde, Ostman.
a1525 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Trin. Dublin) (1896) 82 (MED) He..slogh four knyghtes that weren ouer ham, & four hundret ostmen.
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 105 A Charter..granted by Henrie the second, to certain Oostmen, or Easterlings, who were Inhabitantes of Waterford long before Hen. 2. attempted the conquest of Ireland.
1792 S. Whyte Coll. Poems 244 Nor shall thy meed in Ostmen's-Town, Slieve-Gorget be forgot.
1807 R. C. Hoare Tour Ireland 251 The Ostmen took their revenge by setting fire to the abbey.
1842 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland II. 347 Numberless proofs occur of these being the work of the Ostmen.
1909 Amer. Hist. Rev. 14 259 (note) Among the Ostmen of Ireland the Norse language was still spoken at the middle of the thirteenth century.
1939 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 11 64 The two groups occupying one fortified town which, by the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion at least, was known as the ‘Cantred of the Ostmen’.
1996 T. E. Hachey et al. Irish Experience 6 By the end of the eleventh century, a majority of the Norse-Irish, or Ostmen as they were called, had become Christians with close ties to Canterbury in England.

Derivatives

Ostˈmannic adj. [compare post-classical Latin Ostmannicus (13th cent. in a British source)] of or relating to the Ostmen.
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Norsea1650
Ostmannic1843
1843 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland III. 194 Asserting that they were of Ostmanic construction.
1962 Speculum 37 111 All coins, whether Anglo-Saxon or Hiberno-Norse, the authors argue, represent Ostmannic activity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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