vorst

• IPA^(key): /vɔrst/

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• Hyphenation: vorst
• Rhymes: -ɔrst

From Middle Dutch vorste, from Old Dutch furista, fursta, from the substantivised weak inflection of Proto-West Germanic *furist, from Proto-Germanic *furistaz (“first”).

vorst m (plural vorsten, diminutive vorstje n, feminine vorstin)

1. The generic term for prince, monarch, ruler.
2. A prince, rendering of tradition-specific title of certain ranks (all below King).

• heerser
• monarch
• prins

• erfvorst
• grootvorst
• kerkvorst
• keurvorst
• rijksvorst
• viervorst
• vliegenvorst
• vorst-bisschop
• vorstelijk
• vorstendom
• vorstenhuis

• Afrikaans: vors
• Negerhollands: voorst

From Middle Dutch vorst, a metathetic form of Old Dutch *frost, from Proto-West Germanic *frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustaz.

vorst m (uncountable)

1. The frost, freeze, frosty weather.

• nachtvorst
• vorstgrens
• vorstig
• vorstreus

From Middle Dutch vorst, voerst, from Old Dutch furost, from Proto-West Germanic *furhiþi.

vorst m (plural vorsten, diminutive vorstje n)

1. A wood(land), forest.

• vorster

From Middle Dutch vorst, vorste, from Proto-West Germanic *fursti, from Proto-Germanic *furstiz, variant of *firstiz.

Most closely related to Middle Low German vorst, Middle High German forst. Through the i-form also cognate with Middle Dutch verst, verste, French faîte, German First, Old English first.

vorst f (plural vorsten)

1. A ridgepole.

   Synonym: nok

• dakvorst

vorst

1. inflection of vorsen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Presumably from Middle Low German vorst, from Old Saxon worst, from Proto-West Germanic *wursti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvorst/

vorst (genitive vorsti, partitive vorsti)

1. A sausage.

From Old Dutch *frost, from Proto-West Germanic *frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustaz.

vorst m

1. The frost, icy cold.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: vorst
• Limburgish: vrós

• “vorst (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “vorst (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page III

Borrowed from Middle Low German vorst, from Old Saxon worst, from Proto-West Germanic *wursti.

vorst m ?

1. sausage

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Polański, Kazimierz (1994) “vorst”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), numbers 6 (un – źornü), Warszawa: Energeia, →ISBN, page 1038
• Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “vorst”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 178