ostr
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *justaz. Akin to Latin ius, Proto-Slavic *juxa. Compare Finnish juusto.
Noun edit
ostr m (genitive osts, plural ostar)
Declension edit
Declension of ostr (strong a-stem)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: ostur
- Faroese: ostur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ost, (dialectal) ost’e, øst, ust
- Swedish: ost
- Danish: ost
- Norwegian Bokmål: ost
- Old Gutnish: ustr
- → North Frisian: Aast (Sylt)
References edit
- “ostr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press