-est

后缀
中文释义
英 /ɪst/    美 /ɪst/|/əst/

英文释义

后缀
  1. Used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs. morpheme
    — longest, biggest, fastest, motliest
  2. Used to form the second-person singular present tense and past tense of verbs. (if thou is the subject; not used with you) archaic,dialectal,morpheme
    — goest, makest, wentest, madest

词形变化

-'st alternative -st alternative

词源

词源 1
From Middle English -est, from Old English -est, -ost, from Proto-West Germanic *-ist, *-ōst, from Proto-Germanic *-istaz, *-ōstaz, related to comparative -er. Cognate of Afrikaans -ste, Dutch -st, German -(e)st, Danish -(e)st, Swedish -(a)st.
Via PIE cognate with Ancient Greek -ιστος (-istos), see Pleistocene, protist.
词源 2
From Middle English -est, -st, from Old English -est, -ast, -st, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *-zi, from Proto-Indo-European *-si. The -t was by transfer from inverted order where thou followed the verb, which also occurred in most dialects of Middle Dutch and Middle High German (compare modern German -st).
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