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Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
forst
- superlative degree of fors
Middle English
Noun
forst
- Alternative form of frost
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustą, *frustaz, akin to Old High German frost, Old Norse frost. The surviving attestations show metathesis of r, but the descendants derive from a form without it.
Pronunciation
Noun
forst m
- frost
Declension
Declension of forst (strong a-stem)
Descendants
Further reading
Old High German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From earlier forhist (“forest, pine forest”), from Proto-West Germanic *furhiþi.
Noun
forst f
- firwood, pinewood
- forest
Descendants