beste

From Proto-Basque *bertze, possibly from the root *beR-. Compare berri (“new”).

• IPA^(key): /bes̺te/

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• Rhymes: -es̺te
• Hyphenation: bes‧te

beste (preposed)

1. other

• “beste”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “beste”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

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beste

1. inflection of best, the superlative degree of goed:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

• beest

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beste

1. inflection of gut:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular superlative degree
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural superlative degree
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular superlative degree
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular superlative degree

beste

1. inflection of best:
   1. masculine nominative singular
   2. feminine/neuter nominative/accusative singular
   3. nominative/accusative plural

From Old English betst, betest, from Proto-West Germanic *batist, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz (adjective), *batist (adverb).

• (early ME) betst, bettst, bezst
• best

• IPA^(key): /bɛst/

beste

1. best; superlative degree of good

• English: best
• Scots: best

• “best, adj. (sup.).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.

beste

1. best; superlative degree of wel

• English: best
• Scots: best

• “best, adv. (sup.).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.

beste

1. Alternative form of beeste

From Old French beste, from Latin bēstia.

beste f (plural bestes)

1. beast, animal

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• French: bête, b*t* (censored)
  • Haitian Creole: bèt
  • → Dutch: bête
  • → Swedish: bet

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpeːsːte/

bēste

1. inflection of beastit:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

beste

1. inflection of god:
   1. definite singular superlative degree
   2. plural superlative degree
2. inflection of bra:
   1. definite singular superlative degree
   2. plural superlative degree

beste n

1. the best

Definite singular and plural of best.

beste

1. definite singular of best
   1. superlative degree definite singular of god
   2. superlative degree definite singular of bra
2. plural of best
   1. superlative degree plural of god
   2. superlative degree plural of bra

• bestefar
• bestemor
• besteven, bestevenn
• besteveninne, bestevenninne

A clipping of bestefar m (“grandfather”) and bestemor f (“grandmother”). The first part also being from best (“best”).

beste m (definite singular besten, indefinite plural bestar, definite plural bestane)

1. granddad

beste f (definite singular besta, indefinite plural bester, definite plural bestene)

1. grandma

A nominal use of Etymology 1.

beste n

1. best

From Middle Low German basten, besten.

• besta (a-infinitive)

beste (present tense bestar or bester, past tense besta or beste, supine and past participle besta or best, present participle bestande, imperative best)

1. to sew loosely, to sew together using only a few stitches

• baste

Probably a semi-learned term borrowed partly from Latin bēstia. Compare bisse (modern French biche), which was popularly inherited from a variant (bīstia) of the same word. An alternative hypothesis derives beste from an unattested Vulgar Latin variant form *bēsta (deduced through a supposed diminutive form bēstula), though this is unlikely as it would assume there was a second popular variant of bēstia (bīstia being well attested).

beste oblique singular, f (oblique plural bestes, nominative singular beste, nominative plural bestes)

1. beast, animal

• Middle French: beste
  • French: bête
• Gallo: bestt
• Norman: baête (Cotentin), beyte (Pays de Caux, Pays de Rouen), beet (Sark)
• → Middle Dutch: beest
  • Dutch: beest
    • Afrikaans: bees
    • Jersey Dutch: bêst, beîśe
    • Negerhollands: beest
    • → Papiamentu: bichi
    • → Sranan Tongo: beist
  • → Middle Low German: best
    • Low German: Beest
    • → Danish: bæst
    • → German: Biest
    • → Norwegian:
      • Norwegian Bokmål: beist, best
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: beist
    • → Swedish: best
• → Middle English: beeste, beste, beest, best, beast, beaste
  • English: beast
  • Scots: beast
  • Yola: beast

beste

1. inflection of bestar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative