different between east vs earst

English

Etymology

From Middle English est, from Old English ?ast, from Proto-Germanic *austr?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ews-.

Compare West Frisian east, Dutch oost, German Ost, Norwegian Nynorsk aust, Swedish öst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?st/, enPR: ?st
• Rhymes: -i?st

Noun

east (countable and uncountable, plural easts)

1. One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox. Abbreviated as E.
   • 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

     In a few hours the birds come to it from all points of the compass – east, west, north, and south […]

Coordinate terms

• (compass points)

Derived terms

Translations

Also see Appendix:Cardinal directions for translations of all compass points

Adjective

east (not comparable)

1. Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward.
2. (meteorology) wind from the east
3. Of or pertaining to the east; eastern.
4. From the East; oriental.
5. (ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, that part of a church which contains the choir or chancel.

   the east front of a cathedral

Synonyms

• (situated or lying in or towards the east): eastward
• (meteorology: wind from the east): easterly
• (of or pertaining to the east): eastern
• (from the East): oriental

Antonyms

• (situated or lying in or towards the east): westward
• (meteorology: wind from the east): westerly
• (of or pertaining to the east): western

Translations

Adverb

east (not comparable)

1. towards the east; eastwards

Synonyms

• (towards the east): eastwards

Antonyms

• (towards the east): west. westwards

Translations

Anagrams

• AEST, ESTA, SEAT, Seat, TEAs, eats, etas, sate, saté, seat, seta, tase, teas

Estonian

Noun

east

1. elative singular of iga

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *austr?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ews- (“eastern”). Cognate with Old Frisian ?st, Old Saxon ost, Dutch oost, Old High German ?st, German Osten, Old Norse austr. The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin auster (“southerly”) and aurora (“dawn”), Latvian austrumi (“easterly”), Albanian ag (“dawn, early morning; black mark round the eyes”), Proto-Slavic *utro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ???st/

Noun

?ast m

1. the east

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: est
  • English: east
  • Scots: eist, aist
• ? Old French: est
  • French: est
    • ? Asturian: este
    • ? Catalan: est
    • ? Corsican: este, est
    • ? Galician: leste
    • ? Italian: est
    • ? Occitan: èst
    • ? Portuguese: este, ? leste
    • ? Romanian: est
    • ? Spanish: este

Adjective

?ast

1. eastern, easterly

Declension

Adverb

?ast

1. from the east
2. towards the east

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian ?st, from Proto-Germanic *austr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.?st/

Adjective

east

1. east, eastern, easterly

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

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

Noun

east n (plural [please provide])

1. east

Further reading

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

Noun

east c (plural [please provide])

1. east, eastern former colonies

Further reading

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

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