vestr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *westrą, whence also Old English west, Old High German west.

Adverb

vestr

1. west, westwards

Descendants

• Icelandic: vestur
• Faroese: vestur
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: vest
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: vest
• Old Swedish: væster, væst
  • Swedish: väster, väst
• Old Danish: væster, væst
  • Danish: vest, vester

References

• “vestr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press