hyrst

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xyrst/, [hyrˠst]

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *hursti (“thicket, eyrie, scrub, bush”).

Noun

hyrst f (nominative plural hurste or hursta)

  1. hurst, hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence
    • Wermōd hēr on hyrstum heasewe standeþ.
      Wormwood here in the woods stands dusky.
Declension

Strong i-stem:

singular plural
nominative hyrst hyrste, hyrsta
accusative hyrst, hyrste hyrste, hyrsta
genitive hyrste hyrsta
dative hyrste hyrstum
  • Occasionally masculine:

Strong i-stem:

singular plural
nominative hyrst hyrstas
accusative hyrst hyrstas
genitive hyrstes hyrsta
dative hyrste hyrstum
Descendants
  • Middle English: hirste, hurst, hurste
    • English: hurst (mostly in placenames; obsolete hirst)
    • Scots: hirst, hist

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *hrusti (“armour, armament”).

Noun

hyrst f

  1. (poetic) ornament, decoration, jewel; accoutrements, trappings, armor
    • Bēg and siglu eall swylce hyrsta swylce on horde ǣr men genumen hæfdon.
      Rings and jewels, all such ornaments as before men had taken in the hoard.
      (Beowulf: Th. 6309; B. 3165)
Derived terms
  • ġehyrst (“ornament”)
  • ġehyrstan (“to adorn, decorate; to fry, roast”)
  • heofonhyrst (“ornament of the heavens”)
  • hyrstan (“to decorate, adorn, ornament, equip”)
  • īsenhyrst (“with iron fittings”)
  • trindhyrst (“circular copse”)
  • wīġhyrst (“war-gear, accoutrements”)
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