nost
See also: nôt
Latvian edit
Adverb edit
nost
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English nāst, second person singular indicative of nytan (“to not know”).
Contraction edit
nost
- Contraction of ne wost; wost not; knowest not.
- þu nost wanne crist ure drikte
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
References edit
- “nost”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “witen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.