vestan

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English

Adjective

vestan (not comparable)

Alternative form of Vestan

Anagrams

ventas, vasten, Avents

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *westanē (“from the west”), akin to vestr +‎ -an.

Adverb

vestan (not comparable)

from the west
(with genitive) on the western side of

Coordinate terms

(from compass point): austan, norðan, sunnan

Derived terms

vestanferð f (“journey from the west”)
vestanmaðr m (“a man from the west”)
vestanveðr n (“west wind”)
vestanverðr (“western, westerly”, adjective)
vestanvindr m (“west wind”)

Related terms

vestr (“west”)
vestrœnn (“western”)
vestri (“westerlier”)

Descendants

Icelandic: vestan
Faroese: vestan
Old Swedish: væstan
- Swedish: västan

References

“vestan”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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