different between karst vs earst

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Karst. The German term and the Slovene placename Kras (the Karst Plateau) have a common origin in Italo-Dalmatian carsus (cf. Italian carso); the metathesis in the Slovene term precludes German borrowing from Slovene.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: käst, IPA^(key): /k??st/
• (US) enPR: kärst, IPA^(key): /k??st/
• Rhymes: -??(r)st

  Homophones: cast, caste (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

karst (plural karsts)

1. (geology) A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage.
   • 1978, M. M. Sweeting, “The Karst of Kweilin, Southern China,” The Geographical Journal, vol. 144, no. 2, p. 200:

     In the time available to us on our geomorphological tour we were not able to see the higher and younger karsts of Kweichow and Yunnan and Kunming.

   • 2009, Katherine Harmon, “Top 10 New Species Discovered in 2008,” ScientificAmerican.com, May 29, 2009:

     The shells are just 0.04 inch (one millimeter) long and were found on a karst formation where conditions are damp, but the snails that inhabit them have yet to be observed.

Derived terms

• karstology
• thermokarst
• glaciokarst
• paleokarst

Translations

Further reading

• karst on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Stark, Trask, karts, skart, stark

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Karst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?rst/
• Hyphenation: karst
• Rhymes: -?rst

Noun

karst m (plural karsten)

1. (geology) karst (terrain with caves formed by limestone dissolution by underground drainage)

Derived terms

• karstbron

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?st/

Noun

karst m (plural karsts)

1. (geology) karst

Further reading

• “karst” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ar?st/
• Rhymes: -ar?st

Noun

karst n (genitive singular karsts, no plural)

1. (geology) karst

Declension

Spanish

Alternative forms

• carst

Etymology

From German der Karst, name of a limestone region in Slovenia.

Noun

karst m (plural karstes)

1. (geology) karst

   Synonym: malpaís

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