gâtine

wasteland; moor; marshy, waterproof and sterile ground

Inherited from Middle French gastine, from Old French gastine, guastine (“uncultivated land, deserted ground”), from Frankish *wōstini (“desert, wasteland”), from Proto-Germanic *wōstinī (“desert, waste, abandoned land”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂-stos (“empty, wasted”). Influenced in form by gâter. Cognate with Middle High German wuostinne, wuosten (“a desert, waste”), Saterland Frisian Wüüste (“a desert, waste”), Old English wēsten (“a waste, wilderness, desert”). More at waste.