different between most vs tost

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: m?st, IPA^(key): /?m??st/
• (General American) enPR: m?st, IPA^(key): /?mo?st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Etymology 1

From Middle English most, moste, from Old English m?st, m?st, from Proto-Germanic *maistaz, *maist. Cognate with Scots mast, maist (“most”), Saterland Frisian maast (“most”), West Frisian meast (“most”), Dutch meest (“most”), German meist (“most”), Danish and Swedish mest (“most”), Icelandic mestur (“most”).

Alternative forms

• moste (obsolete)

Determiner

most

1. superlative degree of much.

2. superlative degree of many: the comparatively largest number of (construed with the definite article)

3. superlative degree of many: the majority of; more than half of (construed without the definite article)

Synonyms

• (superlative of much): more than half of (in meaning, not grammar), almost all
• (superlative of many): the majority of (in meaning, not grammar)

Translations

Adverb

most (not comparable)

1. Forms the superlative of many adjectives.

   Antonym: least

2. To a great extent or degree; highly; very.
3. superlative form of many: most many
4. superlative form of much: most much

   Antonym: least

Derived terms

Related terms

• more

Translations

Pronoun

most

1. The greater part of a group, especially a group of people.

Synonyms

• (greater part): the majority

Noun

most (usually uncountable, plural mosts)

1. (uncountable) The greatest amount.

2. (countable, uncountable) The greater part.
3. (countable) A record-setting amount.

Usage notes

• In the sense of record, used when the positive denotation of best does not apply.

Etymology 2

Reduction of almost.

Adverb

most (not comparable)

1. (informal, chiefly US) Almost.
   • 1998, Bill Zehme, The Way You Wear Your Hat: And the Lost Art of Livin' (page 181)

     A well-daiquiried redhead eyed him from across the room at Jilly's one night in 1963 — although it could have been most any night ever […]

   • 2000, Jewish Baltimore: A Family Album ?ISBN, page 159:

     "We walked there most every day after school."

Translations

References

• most at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• MOTs, MTSO, TMOs, Toms, mots, smot, toms

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin mustum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?most/

Noun

most m (plural mosts or mostos)

1. must (fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented)

Further reading

• “most” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “most” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “most” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “most” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *most? (“bridge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?most]

Noun

most m inan

1. bridge

Declension

Derived terms

• m?stek
• mostní
• mostový
• p?emostit

See also

• lávka

Further reading

• most in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• most in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin mustum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

most m (uncountable, diminutive mostje n)

1. must (unfermented or partially fermented mashed grapes or rarely other fruits, an early stage in the production of wine)

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin mustum.

Noun

most m (plural mosts)

1. must (unfermented grape juice or wine)

Hungarian

Etymology

From the earlier ma (“now”), which in modern Hungarian means “today” + -st. For the suffix, compare valamelyest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mo?t]
• Rhymes: -o?t

Adverb

most

1. now

Declension

It can be suffixed from its variant mostan: mostantól (“from now on”), mostanra (“by now”), mostanig (“until now”), or the latter more commonly formed with -a-, mostanáig (“until now”).

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• most in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Lower Sorbian

Noun

most m (diminutive mos?ik)

1. Superseded spelling of móst.

Declension

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

most

1. Alternative form of must

Etymology 2

Verb

most

1. second-person singular present indicative of moten (“to have to”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German most, must, from Latin mustum

Noun

most m (definite singular mosten, indefinite plural moster, definite plural mostene)

1. must, (unfermented) fruit juice, particularly grape juice

References

• “most” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “most” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German most, must, from Latin mustum

Noun

most m (definite singular mosten, indefinite plural mostar, definite plural mostane)

1. must, (unfermented) fruit juice, particularly grape juice

References

• “most” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mustum.

Noun

most m

1. must

Descendants

• German: Most

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *most? (“bridge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?st/

Noun

most m inan

1. bridge (building over a river or valley)

Declension

Further reading

• most in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• most in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *most? (“bridge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mô?st/

Noun

m?st m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. bridge (construction or natural feature that spans a divide)

Declension

Derived terms

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *most? (“bridge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [most]

Noun

most m (genitive singular mosta, nominative plural mosty, genitive plural mostov, declension pattern of dub)

1. bridge

Declension

Derived terms

• mostík
• mostný
• mostový

Further reading

• most in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *most? (“bridge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mó?st/

Noun

m??st m inan

1. bridge (construction or natural feature that spans a divide)

Inflection

Volapük

Noun

most (nominative plural mosts)

1. monster

Declension

English

Verb

tost

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of toss

Anagrams

• TSTO, stot, tots

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tostum, the neuter of tostus. Cognate with French tôt, Italian tosto.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t?st/

Adverb

tost

1. (archaic or dialectal) soon

   Synonym: aviat

German

Pronunciation

Verb

tost

1. inflection of tosen:
   1. second-person singular/plural present
   2. third-person singular present
   3. plural imperative

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tost, from Proto-Celtic *tustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???s?t??/

Noun

tost m (genitive singular tost, nominative plural tostanna)

1. silence

   Proverb:

2. verbal noun of tost

Declension

Verb

tost (present analytic tostann, future analytic tostfaidh, verbal noun tost, past participle tosta)

1. (intransitive) be silent, become silent

Conjugation

Mutation

References

• "tost" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “tost” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• “tostaim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “tost”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “tost” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “tost” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French toster.

Verb

tost

1. Alternative form of tosten

Etymology 2

A back-formation from tosten.

Alternative forms

• toste, toost

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Noun

tost (plural tostes)

1. toast (bread that has been toasted)

Descendants

• English: toast
• Scots: toast

References

• “t?st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.

Old French

Etymology

Possibly from Latin tot (“very”) + cito (“fast”), but more likely from Vulgar Latin *tostum, from the neuter of Latin tostus (“toasted”), later meaning "hotly, promptly" in Vulgar Latin. Cognate to Italian tosto, Occitan and Catalan tost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?st/

Adverb

tost

1. early
2. soon
3. quickly; straight away

Derived terms

Descendants

• French: tôt
• ? Old Portuguese: toste
  • Galician: toste
  • Portuguese: toste

References

• Bratchet, A. (1873) , “tot”, in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.
• “chignon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tustus, from the same root as tóe. Several phonological peculiarities relating to the evolution of this term, such as irregular final -st (which should have become -s(s) /s/) and the initial consonant fluctuating between t- and s-, are probably due to contamination from its synonym, socht. This contamination intensified over time, giving birth to Middle Irish and Early Modern Irish forms like tocht and sosd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tost/

Noun

tost m (genitive unattested, no plural)

1. silence

   Synonym: socht

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tost, tocht
  • Irish: tost
  • Scottish Gaelic: tost

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Polish

Etymology

From English toast, from Middle English tost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Noun

tost m inan

1. toast (toasted bread)

Declension

Further reading

• tost in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• tosd

Etymology

From Old Irish tost, from Proto-Celtic *tustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t???s?t?]

Noun

tost m (genitive singular tost, no plural)

1. silence

Mutation

References

• “tost” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “tost”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Turkish

Etymology

From English toast.

Noun

tost (definite accusative tosdu, plural tostlar)

1. toast

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian toast

Noun

tost m (invariable)

1. toasted sandwich

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tostus.

Adjective

tost (feminine singular tost, plural tostion, equative tosted, comparative tostach, superlative tostaf)

1. ill
2. sore

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English toast.

Noun

tost m (uncountable)

1. toast

   Synonym: bara cras

Mutation