Old Norse

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Etymology

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Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *twistaz or perhaps derived from Proto-Germanic *kwastuz.

Noun

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kvistr m (genitive kvistar, dative kvisti, plural kvistir)

  1. twig, branch

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: kvistur
  • Faroese: kvistur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kvist
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kvist
  • Swedish: kvist
  • Middle English: quist
    • English: quist (dialectal)

References

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  • kvistr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press