As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that east is direction where the sun rises: east comes from Middle English est, from Old English ēast, which itself comes from the Proto-Germanic *aus-to- or *austra- east, toward the sunrise, from Proto-Indo-European *aus- to shine, or dawn, cognate with Old High German *ōstar to the east, Latin aurora 'dawn', and Greek ēōs 'dawn, east'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin oriens 'west, sunrise' from orior 'to rise, to originate', Greek ανατολή anatolé 'west' from ἀνατέλλω 'to rise' and Hebrew מִזְרָח mizraḥ 'west' from זָרַח zaraḥ 'to rise, to shine'. Ēostre, a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both dawn and the cardinal points.