Noun: beysti
Gender:
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | beysti |
| Sg. Def. | beystit |
| Pl. Indef. | beysti |
| Pl. Def. | beystin |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | beystis |
| Sg. Def. | beystisins |
| Pl. Indef. | beysta |
| Pl. Def. | beystanna |
Dative
| Sg. Indef. | beysti |
| Sg. Def. | beystinu |
| Pl. Indef. | beystum |
| Pl. Def. | beystunum |
Accusative
| Sg. Indef. | beysti |
| Sg. Def. | beystit |
| Pl. Indef. | beysti |
| Pl. Def. | beystin |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like beysti
skipti,
dómarasæti,
samræði,
þegngildi,
jafndœgri,
kvikvendi,
ósmynni,
fiðri,
gerði,
gildi,
leyfi,
milti,
minni,
mynni,
belti,
heiti,
vengi,
vitni,
reyfi,
misseri, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Possibly related to verb beysta, bausta (“to smack, to thresh”), to Proto-Germanic *baustjaną; then maybe originally a term relating relating to butchery?
2. Rietz lists the following cognates: Low German Bost (“breast, chest”), Böst (“breasts”, pl.), Austrian German Bitz, potentially also Occitan peitz (“breast”), and Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”), from Byzantine Greek βυζίον (buzíon, “breast”), from βυζάνω (buzánō, “to breastfeed”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to swell, bend, curve”), then cognate to English bosom.
3. Potentially related to English bust, French buste, Italian busto (“bust”), from Latin bustum (“grave monument, funeral pyre”), apparently to a root “to burn”. The Germanic stem may connect via the later sense of “breast”, or to the root sense of “burning”, here relating to “cooking”. See: English Nouns '
bust', French Nouns '
buste', Italian Nouns '
busto', Latin Nouns '
bustum'.
Verbs referencing "beysti"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
byste, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
byste.
Translations