mest
Swedish
adverb form
Definitions
- mostly, most of the time
- mostly, mainly; to the larger part
- most
- most
- most
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse mestr derived from Proto-Germanic *maist.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*maist
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- almost English
- most English
- mostest English
- mostly English
- mostness English
- mostwhat English
- mest Norwegian Bokmål
- *maist Proto-Germanic
- *maistaz Proto-Germanic
- mest Norwegian Nynorsk
- most Middle English
- mestr Old Norse
- mestur Icelandic
- meist Old High German
- mest Faroese
- mestur Faroese
- mest Old Saxon