tosten

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

tosten

inflection of tosen:
1. first/third-person plural preterite
2. first/third-person plural subjunctive II

Middle English

Alternative forms

toste, tost, toost, tooste, toostyn

Etymology

From Old French toster, from Latin tostus, from torreō, from Proto-Italic *torzeō, from Proto-Indo-European *torséyeti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɔːstən/

Verb

tosten

(rare) To toast; to brown bread.
(rare) To burn or heat.

Conjugation

Conjugation of tosten (weak in -ed)

infinitive	(to) tosten, toste
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	toste	tosted
2nd-person singular	tostest	tostedest
3rd-person singular	tosteth	tosted
subjunctive singular	toste	tosted
imperative singular	toste	—

plural¹	tosten, toste	tosteden, tostede
imperative plural	tosteth, toste	—

participles	tostynge, tostende	tosted, ytosted

¹Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Derived terms

tost

Descendants

English: toast
Scots: toast

References

“tōsten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.

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