mest

From Old Danish mest, from Old Norse mestr.

• IPA^(key): /mest/

mest

1. most; to the highest degree

   Den er mest afskyelig af dem alle.

   It is the most despicable of them all.

2. most; in the largest quantity

   Hun havde mest plads.

   She had the most space.

mest

1. mostly; for the most part

   Gruppen bestod mest af immigranter fra Skotland.

   The group consisted chiefly of Scottish immigrants.

2. most of the time

   Sommetider gik hun ture, men mest sov hun.

   She would sometimes go for walks, but mostly, she slept.

• mist (dialectal)

From Middle Dutch mest, from Old Dutch *mist, from Proto-West Germanic *mistu, from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz. Probably derived from *mīganą (“to urinate”) + *-þuz.

Cognate with Old Saxon mist, Old High German mist, German Mist, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (maihstus). More distantly related to Middle Dutch mes, mis, Old Saxon mehs, West Frisian mjoks, mjuks, Old English meox.

• IPA^(key): /mɛst/

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• Hyphenation: mest
• Rhymes: -ɛst

mest m or n (uncountable)

1. dung
2. fertilizer

Mest is in modern usage masculine in the Netherlands, but may also be neuter in Belgium.

• → Caribbean Hindustani: mes
• → Caribbean Javanese: mès
• → Papiamentu: mèst, mest

• stem

From Old Norse mestr, from Proto-Germanic *maist.

mest (superlative of nógv, comparative meira)

1. most

• mestur

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *met-; according to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Cognate with Lithuanian mesti, also Proto-Slavic *mesti (“to throw; to sweep”).

• IPA^(key): /mest/

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mest (transitive, 1st conjugation, present metu, met, met, past metu)

1. to throw

mest

1. alternative form of myst (“mist”)

mest

1. drunk

From Old Norse mestr, from Proto-Germanic *maist.

mest

1. indefinite singular superlative degree of mye

mest

1. most; used in construction of superlative of long/foreign adjectives

• aller mest

• “mest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse mestr, from Proto-Germanic *maist.

• IPA^(key): /mɛst/

mest

1. most; used in construction of superlative of long/foreign adjectives
2. almost

• (almost): nesten

• aller mest

• “mest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

mest m

1. alternative form of mæst (“mast”)

From Proto-West Germanic *maist, from Proto-Germanic *maist, *maistaz (“most”).

Compare Old English mǣst, Old Frisian māst, Old High German meist, Old Norse mestur, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍃 (maists), 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍄 (maist).

mēst

1. most

mest

1. genitive dual/plural of mesto

From Old Norse mestr, from Proto-Germanic *maist.

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mest

1. mostly, most of the time
2. mostly, mainly; to the larger part
3. superlative degree of mycket: most
4. superlative degree of många: most
5. Used in construction of the superlative of certain adjectives: most

• (mostly): mestadels

• mest in Svensk ordbok.

• smet

From Ottoman Turkish مست (mest), from Classical Persian مَسْت (mast), Middle Persian 𐭬𐭮𐭲 (mst, “drunk, bemused”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *matˢtás (“drunk, intoxicated”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”)

IPA^(key): /ˈmest/

mest

1. intoxicated

   Synonym: sarhoş

mest (m)

1. tomorrow