lestr

Breton

Etymology

From Old Breton lestr, from Proto-Brythonic *llestr, from Proto-Celtic *lestrom (“pot”) (compare Welsh llestr (“vessel, receptacle”), Old Irish lestar), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *les- (“to gather”) + *-trom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛst/, /ˈlɛstʁ/

Noun

lestr m (plural listri or lestroù)

  1. container, vessel
  2. vessel, ship

Derived terms

Old Norse

Alternative forms

Noun

lestr m or f

  1. reading

Descendants

  • Icelandic: lestur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: lester
  • Norwegian Bokmål: lester

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “lestr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Anagrams

Welsh

Pronunciation

Noun

lestr

  1. soft mutation of llestr

Mutation

Mutated forms of llestr
radical soft nasal aspirate
llestr lestr unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.