mestr
Breton
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Breton maestr, from Old French maistre, from Latin magister
Noun
editNorwegian Bokmål
editAlternative forms
editVerb
editmestr
- imperative of mestre
Old Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *maistaz, superlative form of *mikilaz (“great, large, many”).
Adjective
editmestr
Declension
edit Strong declension of superlative of mestr
Weak declension of superlative of mestr
Descendants
edit- Icelandic: mestur
- Faroese: mestur
- Old Swedish: mæster
- Swedish: mest
- Norwegian Nynorsk: mest (obsolete or dialectal)
References
edit- “mestr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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- Breton terms inherited from Middle Breton
- Breton terms derived from Middle Breton
- Breton terms derived from Old French
- Breton terms derived from Latin
- Breton lemmas
- Breton nouns
- Breton masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål verb forms
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse adjectives
- Old Norse superlative adjectives