mestr
Breton edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Breton maestr, from Old French maistre, from Latin magister
Noun edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
mestr
- imperative of mestre
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *maistaz, superlative form of *mikilaz (“great, large, many”).
Adjective edit
mestr
Declension edit
Strong declension of superlative of mestr
Weak declension of superlative of mestr
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: mestur
- Faroese: mestur
- Old Swedish: mæster
- Swedish: mest
- Norwegian Nynorsk: mest (obsolete or dialectal)
References edit
- “mestr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press