noest
Dutch
Etymology
A contraction of in + oest, the latter a variant of oogst (“harvest”). For the meaning consider that being 'in harvest' means to be working hard. For words of similar origin compare nijver and naarstig.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nust/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: noest
- Rhymes: -ust
Adjective
noest (comparative noester, superlative meest noest or noestst)
- (dated) industrious
- 2023 December 9, “Gewaardeerde Marijnissen wist politieke tij voor de SP niet te keren”, in nos, archived from the original on 2023-12-9:
- D66-leider Jetten sluit zich daarbij aan: "Dank Lilian, voor je noeste parlementaire arbeid voor een socialer Nederland."
- The leader of D66, Jetten, supports that: "Thank you Lilian, voor your industrious parliamentary work for a more social Netherlands."
Inflection
| Inflection of noest | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | noest | |||
| inflected | noeste | |||
| comparative | noester | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | noest | noester | het noestst het noestste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | noeste | noestere | noestste |
| n. sing. | noest | noester | noestste | |
| plural | noeste | noestere | noestste | |
| definite | noeste | noestere | noestste | |
| partitive | noests | noesters | — | |
Derived terms
- noestheid
Descendants
- Afrikaans: noeste
References
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “noest”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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