earst

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, Satre, TASer, Taser, Tesar, arets, arste, aster, rates, reast, resat, setar, stare, stear, tares, tarse, taser, tears, teras

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Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• èerste (Sette Comuni)

Etymology

From Middle High German ērste, from Old High German ērist, from Proto-West Germanic *airist.

Adjective

earst (not comparable)

1. (Luserna) first

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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West Frisian

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian ērest (“first”). Cognates include North Frisian iarst and English erst.

Adjective

West Frisian ordinal numbers

<  0th	1st	2nd  >
Cardinal : ien     Ordinal : earst

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 corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

earst

1. predicative superlative degree of ier