different between wost vs rost

English

Etymology

From Middle English wost, from Old English w?st (also w?st), from Proto-Germanic *waist, second person singular indicative of Proto-Germanic *witan? (“to wit, know”). More at English wit.

Verb

wost

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of wit

Anagrams

• OTWs, SWOT, Stow, TOWs, Tows, ow'st, stow, swot, tows, twos, wots

English

Pronunciation

Noun

rost (plural rosts)

1. (Scotland) Alternative form of roust (a strong tide or current)

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Anagrams

• RTOS, RTOs, TROs, orts, rots, sort, tors

Breton

Etymology

From Old French rostir, of West Germanic origin.

Noun

rost m

1. roasted meat

Catalan

Adjective

rost (feminine rosta, masculine plural rosts or rostos, feminine plural rostes)

1. steep

Noun

rost m (plural rosts or rostos)

1. a steep slope

Danish

Verb

rost

1. past participle of rose

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st

Adjective

rost

1. Superlative form of ros

Anagrams

• rots, stro, tros

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ro?t]
• Hyphenation: rost
• Rhymes: -o?t

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from an unattested stem + -t (noun-forming suffix).

Noun

rost (plural rostok)

1. fiber

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German, more specifically from Bavarian. Compare Rost (“grill”).

Noun

rost (plural rostok)

1. grill (grid of metal to roast food on)

   Synonyms: rostély, vasrács

Declension

References

Further reading

• (fiber): rost 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
• (grill): rost 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

Lombard

Etymology

From Old French rostir, of West Germanic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??t/

Noun

rost m (invariable)

1. roast

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [r?st]

Verb

rost

1. supine of ros?

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French rost, roste.

Noun

rost

1. Alternative form of roste (“roast”)

Etymology 2

From Old French rostir.

Verb

rost

1. Alternative form of rosten (“to roast”)

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *orst?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?st/

Noun

rost m inan

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of wzrost.

Declension

Related terms

• (nouns) dorost, narost, odrost, podrost, porost, przedrost, przerost, przyrost, rozrost, wodorost, wyrost, wzrost, zarost, zrost

Further reading

• rost in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin r?strum. Compare Aromanian arostu. Compare also related meanings in Albanian rast.

Noun

rost n (plural rosturi)

1. order
2. sense, meaning
3. purpose, aim
4. justification
5. job
6. (obsolete) mouth
7. (obsolete) the faculty of speaking, speech

Declension

Synonyms

• (sense): sens
• (mouth): gur?
• (speech): vorbire

Related terms

• rosti

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish rost, from Old Norse *rustr, from Proto-Germanic *rustaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewd?-.

Noun

rost c

1. (uncountable) rust
2. a gridiron, a grill

Declension

Related terms

Anagrams

• Tors, orts, rots, sort, stor, tros