-st

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb suffix for the second-person singular.

Concepten

meest

-t

-st

Synoniemen

meist

-t

am -sten

Vertalingen

-est

plus

più

-s

-is

-as

-es

mais

o mais

-as

-es

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/st/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelhoogduits: -est

Overgenomen van Oudhoogduits: -

Overgenomen van Oudhoogduits: -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.