bast

Swedish

noun

Definitions

bast (fibre material)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish bast inherited from Old Norse bast (inner bark of trees from which ropes were made, bast) inherited from Proto-Germanic *bastaz (bast, rope).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*bastaz

Gloss

bast, rope

Concept

Semantic Field

Quantity

Ontological Category

Classifier

`Kanji`

縄, 綱

Emoji

🪢

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

bast English
bastard English
Bast German
Baumbast German
basten German
bastfarben German
*bʰask- Proto-Indo-European
*bastaz Proto-Germanic
bæst Old English
bast Middle English
bast Old Norse
bast Old High German
bast Faroese
bast Old Swedish