heste
Danish edit
Noun edit
heste c
- indefinite plural of hest
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English hǣs, from Proto-West Germanic *haisi, from Proto-Germanic *haisiz. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique forms, while forms with final /t/ are influenced by the suffix -the.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
heste (plural hestes or hesten)
- A directive, command or order.
- A rule; a formal, long-term order.
- The power to command; control, jurisdiction.
- A pact or agreement; that which is agreed upon.
- (rare) A prophetic prediction.
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “hē̆st(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 edit
From Old English hǣst, from Proto-West Germanic *haifsti, from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz; the final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique forms. Doublet of haste.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
heste (uncountable)
References edit
- “hēste, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English heste, variant of hes, from Old English hǣs.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
heste
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 46