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forst

1. superlative degree of fors

forst

1. alternative form of frost

• frost

From Proto-West Germanic *frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustaz. Cognate with Old High German frost, Old Norse frost. The surviving attestations show metathesis of r, but the descendants derive from a form without it.

• IPA^(key): /forst/, [forˠst]

forst m

1. frost
   • 10th century, The Seafarer:

     þonne hē be clifum cnossað. · Calde ġeþrungen
     wǣron mīne fēt, · forste ġebunden,
     caldum clommum, · þǣr þā ċeare sēofedun.
     Hāt ymb heortan · hungor innan slāt
     merewērġes mōd. · Þæt sē mon ne wāt

     then it beats near cliffs. My feet were
     squeezed by cold, bound by frost,
     with cold fetters, when there we bemoaned
     sorrows. Hot about heart, hunger within tore
     a sea-weary mind. The man didn't know that,

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: frost, forst, froste, vrost, frosst, freost
  • English: frost
  • Scots: frost
  • Yola: vrosth, vroste, vrast

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “forst”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Proto-West Germanic *furhisti.

forst m

1. firwood, pinewood
2. forest

• forsti f

• Middle High German: forst, vorst, (foreht)
  • German: Forst
    • → Swedish: forst-