Oost

Oost

1. A river in Germany
2. A resort in Suriname

• SOTO, Soto, Toso, otos, soot, soto

• (Noord-Holland) Potentially attested as ten oesten in 1377, attested with certainty as Oost in 1839-1859. Derived from oost (“east”).
• (Limburg) See Oost-Maarland.

• IPA^(key): /oːst/

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• Hyphenation: Oost
• Rhymes: -oːst
• Homophone: oost

Oost n

1. A village in Texel, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
2. A former municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “oost”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎ (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

From Middle Low German ôst, from Old Saxon *ōst, from Proto-West Germanic *ōst (“branch; node; crotch; knot”).

Oost m (plural Oosten or Ööst)

1. A knot in a tree; burl
2. A knothole