byrst

Middle English

Noun

byrst

1. Alternative form of burst

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥stís.

Noun

byrst n

1. bristle

Declension

Declension of byrst (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	byrst	byrst
accusative	byrst	byrst
genitive	byrstes	byrsta
dative	byrste	byrstum

Derived terms

• *byrstel

Descendants

• Middle English: brust
• ⇒ Old English: *byrstel
  • Middle English: brustel, bristil, bristel
    • English: bristle
    • Scots: brustle, bristle, brissle

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *brestuz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres‑.

Noun

byrst m

1. loss, defect, failure
2. injury

Declension

Declension of byrst (strong i-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	byrst	byrstas
accusative	byrst	byrstas
genitive	byrstes	byrsta
dative	byrste	byrstum

Related terms

• berstan

Descendants

• Middle English: burst, birst, brist, bruste, bryste, burste, byrst

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “byrst”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “byrst”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.