wüst

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German wüeste, from Old High German wuosti (“waste”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōstī (“desolate, waste”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /vyːst/ === Adjective === wüst (strong nominative masculine singular wüster, comparative wüster, superlative am wüstesten) (of an area of land) desert, desolate 1534, Martin Luther's translation of the Bible, Genesis 1:2 messy, chaotic fierce, severe, savage, wild, unrestrained (regional) ugly, awful ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “wüst” in Duden online “wüst”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) Friedrich Kluge (1883), “wüst”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891