mestr
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Breton
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Breton maestr, from Old French maistre, from Latin magister
Noun
[edit]mestr m (plural mestroù or mistr or mistri)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]mestr
- imperative of mestre
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *maistaz, superlative form of *mikilaz (“great, large, many”).
Adjective
[edit]mestr
Declension
[edit] Strong declension of superlative of mestr
Weak declension of superlative of mestr
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: mestur
- Faroese: mestur
- Old Swedish: mæster
- Swedish: mest
- Norwegian Nynorsk: mest (obsolete or dialectal)
References
[edit]- “mestr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Categories:
- Breton terms inherited from Middle Breton
- Breton terms derived from Middle Breton
- Breton terms derived from Old French
- Breton terms derived from Latin
- Breton lemmas
- Breton nouns
- Breton masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål verb forms
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse adjectives
- Old Norse superlative adjectives