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Where does “beestings” come from?

beestings (English) comes from Old English bȳsting, from Proto-West Germanic beust — beestings.

beestings (English): The first milk drawn from an animal after it has...

Definitions

  1. The first milk drawn from an animal after it has...

Ancestry of “beestings”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishbȳsting—
2Proto-West Germanicbeustbeestings
Every word from Proto-West Germanic beust →