forst

== Dutch == === Pronunciation === === Adjective === forst superlative degree of fors == Middle English == === Noun === forst alternative form of frost == Old English == === Alternative forms === frost === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustą, *frustaz, akin to Old High German frost, Old Norse frost. The surviving attestations show metathesis of r, but the descendants derive from a form without it. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /forst/, [forˠst] === Noun === forst m frost ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: frost, forst, froste, vrost, frosst, freostEnglish: frostScots: frostYola: vrosth, vroste, vrast === Further reading === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “forst”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[1], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. == Old High German == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *furhisti. === Noun === forst m firwood, pinewood forest ==== Related terms ==== forsti f ==== Descendants ==== Middle High German: forst, vorst, (foreht) German: Forst → Swedish: forst-