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earst

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

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earsh

English

Alternative forms

  • arrish, arish, ersh, aish, airish, eddish, errish, hayrish, herrish

Etymology

From Middle English *ersch, from Old English ersc (a park, preserve; stubble-field).

Earsh (noun)(Old English ersc) was used in the south & west of England to describe a stubble field in which plant material – wheat, barley or rye- had been cut, leaving a short stubble or short stalks.

Noah Webster in Webster's Dictionary (1828) describes Earsh as a plowed (sic) field linking it to arrish but also to eadish which is described as latter pasture of grass that comes after mowing or reaping, called also eargrass, earsh, etch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /æ??(?)/,

Noun

earsh (countable and uncountable, plural earshes)

  1. (archaic) stubble field.
    • 1628 Fires oft are good on barren earshes made, With crackling flames to burn the stubble blade’ Translation of Georgics by Virgil, Thomas May,

Anagrams

  • Asher, Rahes, Share, Shear, asher, hares, harse, hears, heras, rheas, sehar, sehra, share, shear

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