Where does “dyster” come from?
dyster (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Middle Low German dūster, from Old Saxon thiustri, from Proto-West Germanic þiustrī, from Proto-West Germanic þimstr, from Proto-Germanic þimstraz, from Proto-Indo-European témH-s-ro-s, from Proto-Indo-European temH- — dark.
dyster (Norwegian Bokmål): dark, obscure, gloomy; cheerless, somber , sombre
Definitions
- dark, obscure, gloomy; cheerless, somber , sombre
Ancestry of “dyster”, step by step