vestr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *westrą, whence also Old English west, Old High German west.

Adverb

vestr

west, westwards

Descendants

Danish: vest
Faeroese: vestur
Icelandic: vestur

Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vest
- Nynorsk: vest
Swedish: väst, väster

References

vestr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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