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Where does “ost” come from?

ost (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic *ōst.

ost (Old English): knot in a tree

Definitions

  1. knot in a tree

Ancestry of “ost”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*ōst—
Every word from Proto-West Germanic *ōst →