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English
Adverb
earst (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of erst.
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, published 1921, Book I:So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right,
And each to deadly shame would drive his foe:
The cruell steele so greedily doth bight
In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow,
With which the armes, that earst so bright did show,
Into a pure vermillion now are dyde: […]
Anagrams
- teras, -aster, reast, treas., taser, setar, stare, TASer, aster-, arste, Stear, sater, stear, aster, tares, Satre, tarse, Sater, arets, tears, resat, rates, Aerts, Aters, Tesar, 'earts, Taser
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Middle High German ērste, from Old High German ērist, from Proto-West Germanic *airist.
Adjective
earst (not comparable)
- (Luserna) first
References
West Frisian
Etymology 1
From Old Frisian ērest (“first”). Cognates include North Frisian iarst and English erst.
Adjective
earst
- first
Inflection
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- “earst (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Adverb
earst
- firstly, at first
Further reading
- “earst (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
earst
- predicative superlative degree of ier