Old English · adverb
west
- Part of speech
- adverb
- IPA
- /west/
- Syllables
- west (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- west
Meaning
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west
[Wiht] is þrittiġes mīla lang ēast ⁊ west, ⁊ twelf mīla brād sūð ⁊ norð. [Wight] is thirty miles long east-to-west and twelve miles wide north-to-south.
late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *westr, see also Old High German west, Old Norse vestr.
Descendants
west
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