lest
Norwegian Nynorsk
noun-m1
Definitions
- a last a tool in the shape of a human foot, for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes
- (clothing) the foot-part of a stocking
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse leistr (sock, foot) inherited from Proto-Germanic *laistaz (footprint, track, trace) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *lóystos, *leys- (be gentle, become small, shrink, track, grow thin, trace, furrow).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*leys-
Gloss
be gentle, become small, shrink, track, grow thin, trace, furrow
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- belast English
- everlast English
- filst English
- last English
- lastability English
- lastable English
- lastborn English
- laster English
- lastest English
- lasteth English
- lastly English
- lastness English
- outlast English
- unlast English
- lesti Finnish
- lästi Finnish
- Leisten German
- *leys- Proto-Indo-European
- *loyséyeti Proto-Indo-European
- *lóyseh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *lóystos Proto-Indo-European
- *laisiz Proto-Germanic
- *laistaz Proto-Germanic
- *laistiz Proto-Germanic
- *laskijaną Proto-Germanic
- *līstǭ Proto-Germanic
- beläst Swedish
- läst Swedish
- ラスト Japanese
- leist Norwegian Nynorsk
- hlæst Old English
- last Old English
- last Middle English
- lees Middle English
- leistr Old Norse
- læst Danish
- leist Old High German
- last Old Irish