forst
Middle English
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustą, *frustaz, akin to Old High German frost, Old Norse frost. The surviving attestations show metathesis of r, but the descendants derive from a form without it.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /forst/, [forˠst]
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “forst”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Old High German
Alternative forms
- forhist
Etymology
From earlier forhist (“forest, pine forest”), from Proto-West Germanic *furhiþi.
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