earst
EnglishEdit
AdverbEdit
earst (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of erst
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1921),[1] Book I:
- So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right,
And each to deadly shame would drive his foe:
The cruell steele so greedily doth bight
In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow,
With which the armes, that earst so bright did show,
Into a pure vermillion now are dyde: […]
- So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right,
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1921),[1] Book I:
AnagramsEdit
- 'earts, -aster, Aters, Sater, Satre, TASer, Taser, Tesar, arets, arste, aster, rates, reast, resat, setar, stare, stear, tares, tarse, taser, tears, teras
CimbrianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- èerste (Sette Comuni)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German ērste, from Old High German ērist, from Proto-West Germanic *airist.
AdjectiveEdit
earst (not comparable)
ReferencesEdit
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
West FrisianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Frisian ērest (“first”). Cognates include North Frisian iarst and English erst.
AdjectiveEdit
| < 0th | 1st | 2nd > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : ien Ordinal : earst | ||
earst
InflectionEdit
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Further readingEdit
- “earst (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
AdverbEdit
earst
Further readingEdit
- “earst (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
AdjectiveEdit
earst