Noun: lest
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Indefinite
| Sg. | lest |
| Pl. | lestar; lester |
Definite
| Sg. | lesten |
| Pl. | lestane; lestene |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like lest
saknad,
begonia,
rettsskipnad,
æresgjest,
sandsekk,
miltsting,
skipnad,
dreng,
brest,
uvled,
stola,
svastika,
gøymestad,
kjøkkenbenk,
hugnad,
balaklava,
balalaika,
folkesetnad,
alba,
lest, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse leistr m, from Proto-Germanic *laistaz m (“track, trace; footprint”), from Proto-Indo-European *lóystos, from the root *leys- (“to trace, track”). Akin to English last, Swedish läst, and German Leisten. See: Old Norse Nouns '
leistr', English Nouns '
last', Swedish Nouns '
läst', German Nouns '
Leisten'.
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