beste
Basque edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Basque *bertze, possibly from the root *beR-.[1] Compare berri (“new”).
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
beste (preposed)
Derived terms edit
- beste barik
- beste bat arte
- beste batean
- beste behin
- beste hainbat
- beste hainbeste
- beste honenbeste
- beste horrenbeste
- beste kuku batek jo
- beste mundu
- beste munduko (“extraordinary”)
- beste munduko gauza
- beste oilar batek kukurruku jo
- beste orduz
- bestea (“the other one”, pronoun)
- besteak beste
- besteetan
- bestela (“otherwise”)
- bestela baitakoan
- bestela bezala
- bestela esan
- bestela esanda
- bestela esateko
- bestelako (“different”)
- bestelakotasun
- bestelakotu
- bestelakotze
- bestelan
- bestelaz
- bestenaz
- bestengusina (“younger female cousin”)
- bestengusu (“younger male cousin”)
- bestera
- besterako
- besteratu
- besterendu
- besterenganatu
- besterentzaile
- besterentze
- besterik ezean
- besterik ezinean
- besterik izan
- bestetar
- bestetara
- bestetaratu
- bestetasun
- bestetik (“on the other hand”)
- bestetxo
- bestetzuk
References edit
- ^ “*berr-” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk
Further reading edit
- “beste”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
- “beste”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio: (file)
Adjective edit
beste
- inflection of best, the superlative degree of goed:
Anagrams edit
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio: (file)
Adjective edit
beste
Middle Dutch edit
Adjective edit
beste
- inflection of best:
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English betst, betest, from Proto-West Germanic *batist, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz (adjective), *batist (adverb).
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
beste
Descendants edit
References edit
- “best, adj. (sup.).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.
Adverb edit
beste
Descendants edit
References edit
- “best, adv. (sup.).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
beste
- Alternative form of beeste
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French beste, from Latin bēstia.
Noun edit
beste f (plural bestes)
Descendants edit
Northern Sami edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bēste
- inflection of beastit:
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Adjective edit
beste
Noun edit
beste n
- the best
Derived terms edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
Definite singular and plural of best.
Adjective edit
beste
- definite singular of best
- superlative degree definite singular of god
- superlative degree definite singular of bra
- plural of best
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
A clipping of bestefar m (“grandfather”) and bestemor f (“grandmother”). The first part also being from best (“best”).
Noun edit
beste m (definite singular besten, indefinite plural bestar, definite plural bestane)
Noun edit
beste f (definite singular besta, indefinite plural bester, definite plural bestene)
Etymology 3 edit
A nominal use of Etymology 1.
Noun edit
beste n
Etymology 4 edit
From Middle Low German basten, besten.
Alternative forms edit
- besta (a-infinitive)
Verb edit
beste (present tense bestar or bester, past tense besta or beste, supine and past participle besta or best, present participle bestande, imperative best)
Related terms edit
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Probably a semi-learned term borrowed partly from Latin bēstia. Compare bisse (modern French biche), which was popularly inherited from a variant (bīstia) of the same word. An alternative hypothesis derives beste from an unattested Vulgar Latin variant form *bēsta (deduced through a supposed diminutive form bēstula), though this is unlikely as it would assume there was a second popular variant of bēstia (bīstia being well attested).
Noun edit
beste oblique singular, f (oblique plural bestes, nominative singular beste, nominative plural bestes)
Descendants edit
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
beste
- inflection of bestar:
- Basque terms inherited from Proto-Basque
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- Rhymes:Basque/es̺te
- Rhymes:Basque/es̺te/2 syllables
- Basque lemmas
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- Dutch terms with audio links
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- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
- Middle English terms derived from Old English
- Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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