kest
See also: kést
English edit
Verb edit
kest (third-person singular simple present kests, present participle kesting, simple past and past participle kest)
- Obsolete spelling of cast
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 42:
- Adowne he kest it with so puissant wrest, / That backe againe it did aloft rebownd, / And gaue against his mother earth a gronefull sownd.
Anagrams edit
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
Possibly same root as in kesi, from Proto-Finnic *keci.
Noun edit
kest (genitive kesta, partitive kesta)
Inflection edit
| Declension of kest (ÕS type 22i/külm, length gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kest | kestad | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | kesta | ||
| genitive | kestade | ||
| partitive | kesta | kesti kestasid | |
| illative | kesta kestasse |
kestadesse kestisse | |
| inessive | kestas | kestades kestis | |
| elative | kestast | kestadest kestist | |
| allative | kestale | kestadele kestile | |
| adessive | kestal | kestadel kestil | |
| ablative | kestalt | kestadelt kestilt | |
| translative | kestaks | kestadeks kestiks | |
| terminative | kestani | kestadeni | |
| essive | kestana | kestadena | |
| abessive | kestata | kestadeta | |
| comitative | kestaga | kestadega | |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “kest”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “kest”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
Tocharian B edit
Noun edit
kest