different between hest vs yest

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

Noun

yest (plural yests)

1. Obsolete spelling of yeast

Anagrams

• Tyes, etys, stey, stye, teys, tyes, yet's, yets

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French geste.

Noun

yest

1. Alternative form of geste (“tale”)

Etymology 2

From Old English ?ist, ?yst, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz.

Alternative forms

• yeste, ?eest, ?est, yeaste, gyst, gest, yeest

Pronunciation

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

Noun

yest (uncountable)

1. The broth or foam created by beer.

Descendants

• English: yeast
• Scots: yest

References

• “y??st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.