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English

Etymology

As a German surname, variant of Fürst, Furst.
As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish פֿירשט (firsht, “prince”), a rendition of the above.
As a Serbo-Croatian and Slovene, from the noun firšt (“prince”), a loanword from German and thus related to the above.

Proper noun

First

A surname.

Anagrams

FTIRs, SIRTF, frist, frits, rifts

German

Etymology

From Middle High German virst, from Old High German first, perhaps ultimately from a combination of Proto-Indo-European *per- + *steh₂-, similar to Proto-Indo-Iranian *pr̥štʰás (“ridge, back”), Latin postis (“doorpost”), Ancient Greek παστάς (pastás, “porch”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɪʁst/
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Noun

First m (strong, genitive Firstes or Firsts, plural Firste)

ridge (of a roof)

Declension

Declension of First

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	First	die	Firste
genitive	eines	des	Firstes, Firsts	der	Firste
dative	einem	dem	First, Firste¹	den	Firsten
accusative	einen	den	First	die	Firste

¹Now rare, see notes.

References

^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “First”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading

“First” in Duden online

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