Eást-ríce

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

eást-ríce

Substitute: I. an empire in the east, the East:--Ðæt eástríce in Asiria gefeóll . . . Ninus rícsade on ðon eástríce lii wintra, Ors. 2, 1; S. 62, 7, 13. Constantinopolis is nú ꝥ héhste cynesetl and heáfod ealles eástríces Constantinopolis nunc imperii sedes et totius caput Orientis est, 3, 7; S. 116, 13. Asia on eástríce, Affrica on súðdǽle, Ælfc. T. Grn. 4, 39. Genáman þára apostola líchaman Grécas and woldan lǽdon on Eástríce, Bl. H. 193, 10. II. a kingdom that lies to the east of another:--Fór se here of þǽm eástríce (the kingdom of the East Franks) westweard, Chr. 893; P. 84, 2. [Cf. O. H. Ger. óstar-ríchi oriens: Icel. austr-ríki.] east-rice