kest
Appearance
See also: kést
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]kest (third-person singular simple present kests, present participle kesting, simple past and past participle kest)
- Obsolete spelling of cast.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 42:
- Adowne he kest it with so puissant wrest, / That backe againe it did aloft rebownd, / And gaue against his mother earth a gronefull sownd.
Anagrams
[edit]Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly same root as in kesi, from Proto-Finnic *keci.
Noun
[edit]kest (genitive kesta, partitive kesta)
Inflection
[edit]Declension of kest (ÕS type 22i/külm, length gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | kest | kestad | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | kesta | ||
genitive | kestade | ||
partitive | kesta | kesti kestasid | |
illative | kesta kestasse |
kestadesse kestisse | |
inessive | kestas | kestades kestis | |
elative | kestast | kestadest kestist | |
allative | kestale | kestadele kestile | |
adessive | kestal | kestadel kestil | |
ablative | kestalt | kestadelt kestilt | |
translative | kestaks | kestadeks kestiks | |
terminative | kestani | kestadeni | |
essive | kestana | kestadena | |
abessive | kestata | kestadeta | |
comitative | kestaga | kestadega |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kest”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “kest”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
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[edit]Noun
[edit]kest