Old English · noun
forst
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /forst/[forˠst]
- Syllables
- forst (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- frost
Meaning
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frost
wǣron mīne fēt, · forste ġebunden, caldum clommum, · þǣr þā ċeare sēofedun. Hāt ymb heortan · hungor innan slāt merewērġes mōd. · Þæt sē mon ne wāt
then it beats near cliffs. My feet were squeezed by cold, bound by frost, with cold fetters, when there we bemoaned sorrows. Hot about heart, hunger within tore a sea-weary mind. The man didn't know that,
þonne hē be clifum cnossað. · Calde ġeþrungen
Declension
All forms (6)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustaz. Cognate with Old High German frost, Old Norse frost. The surviving attestations show metathesis of r, but the descendants derive from a form without it.
Descendants
frost
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