hyrst
Old English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-West Germanic *hursti (“thicket, eyrie, scrub, bush”).
Noun edit
hyrst f (nominative plural hurste or hursta)
- hurst, hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence
- Wermōd hēr on hyrstum heasewe standeþ.
- Wormwood here in the woods stands dusky.
Declension edit
Declension of hyrst (strong i-stem)
- Occasionally masculine:
Declension of hyrst (strong i-stem)
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-West Germanic *hrusti (“armour, armament”).
Noun edit
hyrst f
- (poetic) ornament, decoration, jewel; accoutrements, trappings, armor
- Bēg and siglu eall swylce hyrsta swylce on horde ǣr men genumen hæfdon.
- Rings and jewels, all such ornaments as before men had taken in the hoard.
- (Beowulf: Th. 6309; B. 3165)
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
- ġehyrstan (“to adorn, decorate; to fry, roast”)
- ġehyrst (“ornament”)
- heofonhyrst (“ornament of the heavens”)
- hyrstan (“to decorate, adorn, ornament, equip”)
- īsenhyrst (“with iron fittings”)
- trindhyrst (“circular copse”)
- wīġhyrst (“war-gear, accoutrements”)