Breton

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Etymology

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From Middle Breton maestr, from Old French maistre, from Latin magister

Noun

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mestr m (plural mestroù or mistr or mistri)

  1. master

Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

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Verb

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mestr

  1. imperative of mestre

Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *maistaz, superlative form of *mikilaz (great, large, many).

Adjective

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mestr

  1. superlative degree of mikill
  2. most
  3. largest

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: mestur
  • Faroese: mestur
  • Old Swedish: mæster
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: mest (obsolete or dialectal)

References

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