noest

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Dutch

Etymology

A contraction of in + oest, the latter a variant of oogst (“harvest”). For the meaning consider that being 'in harvest' means to be working hard. For words of similar origin compare nijver and naarstig.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nust/
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  • Hyphenation: noest
  • Rhymes: -ust

Adjective

noest (comparative noester, superlative meest noest or noestst)

  1. (dated) industrious
    • 2023 December 9, “Gewaardeerde Marijnissen wist politieke tij voor de SP niet te keren”, in nos‎, archived from the original on 2023-12-9:
      D66-leider Jetten sluit zich daarbij aan: "Dank Lilian, voor je noeste parlementaire arbeid voor een socialer Nederland."
      The leader of D66, Jetten, supports that: "Thank you Lilian, voor your industrious parliamentary work for a more social Netherlands."

Declension

Declension of noest
uninflected noest
inflected noeste
comparative noester
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial noest noester het noestst
het noestste
indefinite m./f. sing. noeste noestere noestste
n. sing. noest noester noestste
plural noeste noestere noestste
definite noeste noestere noestste
partitive noests noesters —

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: noeste

References

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “noest”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

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