vestri

See also: Vestri

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛstrɪ/
    Rhymes: -ɛstrɪ

Noun

vestri m (genitive singular vestra, nominative plural vestrar)

  1. western (film set in the American West)

Declension

Adjective

vestri (comparative, superlative vestastur)

  1. Alternative form of vestari

Inflection


Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈwes.triː/, [ˈwɛs.triː]

Pronoun

vestrī

  1. (objective) genitive plural of vōs
  2. genitive masculine singular of vester
  3. genitive neuter singular of vester
  4. nominative masculine plural of vester

Old Norse

Etymology

Originally a comparative form of the adverb vestr.

Adjective

vestri (comparative vestri, superlative vestastr)

  1. (comparative) more westerly
  2. (superlative) most westerly
    • liggja þessi lǫnd vestust
      these lands lie westernmost

Inflection

This word is one of a little handful of adjectives with defective inflection, existing only in the comparative and superlative forms.

Coordinate terms

Descendants

References

  • vestri in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vestri” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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