vestan

English

Adjective

vestan (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of Vestan.

Anagrams

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *westanē (from the west), akin to vestr +‎ -an.

Adverb

vestan (not comparable)

  1. from the west
  2. on the western side of [with genitive]

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

  • vestanferð f (journey from the west)
  • vestanmaðr m (a man from the west)
  • vestanveðr n (west wind)
  • vestanverðr (western, westerly, adjective)
  • vestanvindr m (west wind)

Descendants

  • Icelandic: vestan
  • Faroese: vestan
  • Old Swedish: væstan
    • Swedish: västan

Further reading

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