Noun: forst
Gender: m
Nominative
| Singular | forst |
| Plural | forstas |
Genitive
| Singular | forstes |
| Plural | forsta |
Dative
| Singular | forste |
| Plural | forstum |
Accusative
| Singular | forst |
| Plural | forstas |
Sample Sentences
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þonne hē be clifum cnossað. · Calde ġeþrungen
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wǣron mīne fēt, · forste ġebunden,
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caldum clommum, · þǣr þā ċeare sēofedun.
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Hāt ymb heortan · hungor innan slāt
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merewērġes mōd. · Þæt sē mon ne wāt (then it beats near cliffs. My feet were
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squeezed by cold, bound by frost,
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with cold fetters, when there we bemoaned
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sorrows. Hot about heart, hunger within tore
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a sea-weary mind. The man didn't know that,) [10th century, The Seafarer:]
Nouns inflected like forst
feohtling,
seoloþ,
seonoþ,
sacerd,
sleaht,
bealluc,
uprodor,
fugoloþ,
hoppsteort,
pearroc,
swiccræft,
penning,
mæssesang,
weorccræft,
tordwifel,
sandpytt,
discipul,
wyrmhord,
underling,
pundfald, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustaz. Cognate with Old High German frost, Old Norse frost. The surviving attestations show metathesis of r, but the descendants derive from a form without it.
Verbs referencing "forst"
English Nouns
frost.
Translations