þiestre

== Old English == === Alternative forms === þēostor, þēoster, þēostre, þīostre, þīostur, þīstre, þȳstre === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *þiustrī (“dark”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈθi͜yːs.tre/ === Adjective === þīestre (comparative þīestra, superlative þīestrost) dark gloomy ==== Usage notes ==== This word was not used in the sense “the dark.” Instead the noun þīestru (“darkness”) was used. ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== deorc ==== Derived terms ==== þēostrian þīestru ==== Descendants ==== English: thester === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “þiestre”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[1], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. John R. Clark Hall (1916), “þiestre”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[2], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan