-st

(Английский)

Verb suffix for the second-person singular.

Произносится как (IPA)
/st/
Этимология (Английский)

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.

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