vestan
English edit
Adjective edit
vestan (not comparable)
- Alternative form of Vestan
Anagrams edit
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *westanē (“from the west”), akin to vestr + -an.
Adverb edit
vestan (not comparable)
- from the west
- (with genitive) on the western side of
Coordinate terms edit
Derived terms edit
- vestanferð f (“journey from the west”)
- vestanmaðr m (“a man from the west”)
- vestanveðr n (“west wind”)
- vestanverðr (“western, westerly”, adjective)
- vestanvindr m (“west wind”)
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Descendants edit
References edit
- “vestan”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press