See also: oost

English edit

Proper noun edit

Oost

  1. A river in Germany
  2. A resort in Suriname

Anagrams edit

Dutch edit

Etymology edit

  • (Noord-Holland) Potentially attested as ten oesten in 1377, attested with certainty as Oost in 1839-1859. Derived from oost (east).
  • (Limburg) See Oost-Maarland.

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Oost n

  1. A village in Texel, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
  2. A former municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.

References edit

  • van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “oost”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

German Low German edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Low German ôst, from Old Saxon *ōst, from Proto-West Germanic *ōst (branch; node; crotch; knot).

Noun edit

Oost m (plural Oosten or Ööst)

  1. A knot in a tree; burl
  2. A knothole