vestan
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
vestan (not comparable)
- Alternative form of Vestan
Anagrams[edit]
Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *westanē (“from the west”), akin to vestr + -an.
Adverb[edit]
vestan (not comparable)
- from the west
- (with genitive) on the western side of
Coordinate terms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- vestanferð f (“journey from the west”)
- vestanmaðr m (“a man from the west”)
- vestanveðr n (“west wind”)
- vestanverðr (“western, westerly”, adjective)
- vestanvindr m (“west wind”)
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “vestan”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press