earst

English

Adverb

earst (not comparable)

Obsolete spelling of erst
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1921), Book I:
  So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right,
  And each to deadly shame would drive his foe:
  The cruell steele so greedily doth bight
  In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow,
  With which the armes, that earst so bright did show,
  Into a pure vermillion now are dyde: […]

Anagrams

'earts, -aster, Aters, Sater, TASer, Taser, Tesar, arste, aster, rates, reast, resat, setar, stare, stear, tares, tarse, taser, tears, teras

West Frisian

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian ērosta.

Adjective

**West Frisian ordinal numbers**
< 0th	1st	2nd >
Cardinal : ien Ordinal : earst

earst

first

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

“earst (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Adverb

earst

firstly, at first

Further reading

“earst (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

earst

predicative superlative degree of ier

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