forst
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forst
Middle English edit
Noun edit
forst
- Alternative form of frost
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Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustą, *frustaz, akin to Old High German frost, Old Norse frost. The surviving attestations show metathesis of r, but the descendants derive from a form without it.
Pronunciation edit
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forst m
Declension edit
Declension of forst (strong a-stem)
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Further reading edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “forst”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Etymology edit
From earlier forhist (“forest, pine forest”), from Proto-West Germanic *furhiþi.
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forst f