Where does “*bast” come from?

*bast (West Germanic) comes from Proto-Indo-European bʰasḱ- — bundle, heap, load.

Ancestry of “*bast”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰasḱ-bundle, heap, load

Words derived from “*bast

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰasḱ-
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