different between earnt vs earst

English

Alternative forms

• earned

Etymology

From earn +? -t

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nt/

Verb

earnt

1. (chiefly British) simple past tense and past participle of earn

Usage notes

• Written, this is an uncommon (<0.5% as common as earned in the British National Corpus) alternative form of the simple past and past participle earned. This form is, however, more commonly spoken than written. Other verbs which can be conjugated in this way are: learn (learnt), dream (dreamt), spell (spelt). But those forms are considered standard, whereas "earnt" is often considered non-standard.

Anagrams

• Arent, Netra, Teran, antre, aren't, arent, atren, nater

English

Adverb

earst (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of erst
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1921),^[1] Book I:

     So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right,
     And each to deadly shame would drive his foe:
     The cruell steele so greedily doth bight
     In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow,
     With which the armes, that earst so bright did show,
     Into a pure vermillion now are dyde: […]

Anagrams

• 'earts, -aster, Aters, Sater, TASer, Taser, Tesar, arets, arste, aster, rates, reast, resat, setar, stare, stear, tares, tarse, taser, tears, teras

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• èerste (Sette Comuni)

Etymology

From Middle High German ?rste, from Old High German ?rist, from Proto-West Germanic *airist.

Adjective

earst (not comparable)

1. (Luserna) first

References

• “earst” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

West Frisian

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian ?rest (“first”). Cognates include North Frisian iarst and English erst

Adjective

earst

1. first

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “earst (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Adverb

earst

1. firstly, at first

Further reading

• “earst (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

earst

1. predicative superlative degree of ier