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Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
fyst
- past participle of fyse
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Adjective
fyst
- neuter of fys
Etymology 2
Participle
fyst (definite singular and plural fyste)
- past participle of fyse
Verb
fyst
- supine of fyse
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *fūsti, from Proto-Germanic *funstiz, from Proto-Indo-European *pnsti-, a variant of *pnksti-, *pn̥kʷsti (“fist”), a derivative of *pénkʷe (“five”). Cognate with Old Frisian fest (West Frisian fest), Old Saxon fūst, Dutch vuist, Old High German fūst (German Faust), and with Russian пясть (pjastʹ, “palm of the hand”), Polish pięść (“fist”), Serbo-Croatian pȇst (“fist”) and pȑst (“finger”), Lithuanian kumštis.
Pronunciation
Noun
fȳst f
- the fist
Declension
Declension of fȳst (strong i-stem)
Descendants