Hæstingas

== Old English == === Etymology === From *Hæsta (“a personal name”) +‎ -ing (“follower”) +‎ -as (nominative/accusative plural), literally “followers of Hæsta”, a term transferred to their settlement. === Proper noun === Hæstingas m pl Hastings (a town in East Sussex, England), site of the Battle of Hastings ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: ==== Descendants ==== English: Hastings === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Hæstingas”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.