vestan

English

Adjective

vestan (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of Vestan

Anagrams

• ventas, vasten, Avents

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *westanē (“from the west”), akin to vestr +‎ -an.

Adverb

vestan (not comparable)

1. from the west
2. on the western side of [with genitive]

Coordinate terms

• (from compass point): austan, norðan, sunnan

Derived terms

• vestanferð f (“journey from the west”)
• vestanmaðr m (“a man from the west”)
• vestanveðr n (“west wind”)
• vestanverðr (“western, westerly”, adjective)
• vestanvindr m (“west wind”)

Related terms

• vestr (“west”)
• vestrœnn (“western”)
• vestri (“westerlier”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: vestan
• Faroese: vestan
• Old Swedish: væstan
  • Swedish: västan

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vestan”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive