Where does “Mest” come from?

Mest (Plautdietsch) comes from Middle Low German mist, from Old Saxon mist, from Proto-West Germanic *mistu.

Mest (Plautdietsch): dung, manure

Definitions

  1. dung, manure

Ancestry of “Mest”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanmist—
2Old Saxonmist—
3Proto-West Germanic*mistu—

Words derived from “Mest”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *mistu →Every word from Old Saxon mist →Every word from Middle Low German mist →