earst

earst (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of erst
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene‎, published 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: […]

• teras, -aster, reast, treas., taser, setar, stare, TASer, aster-, arste, Stear, sater, stear, aster, tares, Satre, tarse, Sater, arets, tears, resat, rates, Aerts, Aters, Tesar, 'earts, Taser

• èerste (Sette Comuni)

From Middle High German ērste, from Old High German ērist, from Proto-West Germanic *airist.

earst (not comparable)

1. (Luserna) first

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Old Frisian ērest (“first”). Cognates include North Frisian iarst and English erst.

earst

1. first

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

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

earst

1. firstly, at first

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

earst

1. predicative superlative degree of ier