westane

• IPA^(key): /ˈwes.tɑ.ne/

westane

1. from the west, in the west
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Æt þǣm ende, hit beliċġað ðā beorgas, þe man hǣt Alpis: þā onginnað westane fram þǣm Wendelsǣ, in Narbonense þǣre ðēode and endiað eft ēast in Dalmatia þǣm lande, æt þǣm sǣ.

     At the end extend the mountains known as the Alps; they begin in the west of the Mediterranean, in Gallia Narbonensis, and end at the eastern sea in the land of Dalmatia.

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “westane”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.