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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/beust

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Uncertain; presumably related *beustr, *breustr (whence Old High German biastr (“beestings”)), suggested to be dissimilated from Proto-Germanic *breustaz[1] (whence Icelandic ábrystir pl (“dish made from beestings”)), and possibly either derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell”), or further connected to Proto-Iranian *frušáh (“beestings”)[2], both perhaps borrowed from a substrate language[3].

Noun

*beust m[2]

  1. beestings

Inflection
Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *beust
Genitive *beustas
Singular Plural
Nominative *beust *beustō, *beustōs
Accusative *beust *beustā
Genitive *beustas *beustō
Dative *beustē *beustum
Instrumental *beustu *beustum
  • *breustr, *beustr
    • Old High German: biastr, *briastr
      • Palatine German: Briester
      • Alemannic German: Bieschter, Briescht

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Old English: bēost
  • Old Frisian: *biāst
    • North Frisian: bjārst, bjüst
    • Saterland Frisian: biaost
    • West Frisian: bjist
  • Old Saxon: biost
    • Middle Low German: bêst
      • German Low German:
        Low Prussian: Bîst, Biest, Bêst
        Sauerländisch: Baist, Bauest (Niedersfeld)
      • → Danish: bjæst
  • Old Dutch: *biest
  • Old High German: biost

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*beusta-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 62
  2. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Biest¹”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 84: “wg. *beusta-”
  3. Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “biest”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎ (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
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