In 1899, the Austrian linguist and ethnologist Wilhelm Schmidt coined the term "Austronesian" (German: "austronesisch", from Latin ', "south wind"; and Greek ', "island") to refer to the language family. Schmidt had the same motivations as Codrington. He proposed the term as a replacement to "Malayo-Polynesian", because he also opposed the implied exclusion of the languages of Melanesia and Micronesia in the latter name. It became the accepted name for the language family, with Oceanic and Malayo-Polynesian languages being retained as names for subgroups.