-st

Significat (Anglès)

Verb suffix for the second-person singular.

Sinònims

meist

-t

am -sten

Traduccions

-est

plus

più

-s

-is

-as

-es

meest

-t

-st

mais

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/st/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de alt alemany mitjà: -est

Heretat de alt alemany antic: -

Heretat de alt alemany antic: -ist

In summary

From Middle High German -est, from older -es through rebracketing in inverted forms like sizzes du → sizzestu → sizzest du (“do you sit”). Further from a merger of various Old High German conjugation suffixes, from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European.