different between hest vs cest

English

Etymology

From Middle English heste, alteration of Middle English hes, from Old English h?s (“command”). Akin to Old English h?tan "to command". More at hight.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

hest (plural hests)

1. (obsolete) Command, injunction.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene i^[1]:

     FERDINAND: […] What is your name?

     MIRANDA: Miranda — O my father! / I have broke your hest to say so.

Related terms

• behest

Translations

Anagrams

• Esth, Esth., Seth, Tesh, eths, hets, shet, tesh

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hestr (“stallion”), from Proto-Germanic *hanhistaz, a Verner alternation variant of *hangistaz, which is the source of the West Germanic word for “stallion”, cf. German Hengst and Danish hingst (a loanword from Low German).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?sd?]

Noun

hest c (singular definite hesten, plural indefinite heste)

1. horse

Inflection

Derived terms

• gyngehest

Descendants

• ? Greenlandic: hiisti

References

• “hest” in Den Danske Ordbog

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Homophones: Hest, heyst

Noun

hest

1. indefinite accusative singular of hestur

Icelandic

Noun

hest

1. indefinite accusative singular of hestur

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (?ass). Cognate with Persian ??? (hes).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?st/

Noun

hest m (Arabic spelling ??????)

1. emotion, feeling, sentiment, passion

Declension

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Middle Norwegian hester (“horse”), from Old Norse hestr (“horse”), from Proto-Germanic *hangistaz (“horse, stallion”), from Proto-Indo-European *?an?est-, *kankest- (“horse”). Doublet of hingst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?st/

Noun

hest m (definite singular hesten, indefinite plural hester, definite plural hestene)

1. a horse

Usage notes

• In the period between 1938 and 1983, the definite plural form hesta was allowed. This morphological peculiarity included these other masculine nouns: gamp, gutt, kar, tupp.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?he?st/

Adjective

hest

1. neuter of hes

References

• “hest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian hester, from Old Norse hestr, from Proto-Germanic *hangistaz. Doublet of hingst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?st/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

hest m (definite singular hesten, indefinite plural hestar, definite plural hestane)

1. a horse

Derived terms

References

• “hest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Noun

hest

1. accusative singular indefinite of hestr m

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• he?t

Numeral

hest

1. eight

English

Etymology

Latin cestus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?st/

Noun

cest (plural cests)

1. (obsolete) A woman's girdle; a cestus.
   • 1746, William Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character

     The cest of amplest power is given

Anagrams

• 'tecs, CTEs, ECTS, ETCS, Stec, TCEs, TECs, sect

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?s?st/

Noun

cest

1. genitive plural of cesta

Middle French

Etymology 1

From Old French cist.

Adjective

cest

1. masculine singular of ce used before a vowel or a mute h followed by a vowel

Descendants

• French: cet

Etymology 2

Contraction

cest

1. Alternative form of c'est

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kistu, from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek ????? (kíst?). Cognate with Old Frisian kiste, Middle Dutch kiste (Dutch kist), Old High German chista (German Kiste), Old Norse kista.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??est/

Noun

?est f

1. box; coffer

Descendants

• Middle English: cheste, chist, chiste, kist, kiste, cyst, chyst, kyst, kyste, cæste
  • English: chest
  • Scots: kist

Old French

Adjective

cest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular ceste)

1. Alternative form of cist

Welsh

Alternative forms

• cefaist (literary)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /k?sd/, [k??st]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ke?sd/, [k?e?st], /k?sd/, [k??st]

Verb

cest

1. second-person singular preterite of cael

Mutation