drost
Dutch
Alternative forms
- drossaard (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch drutsate (“steward”), from a Common Germanic compound of Proto-Germanic *druhtiz (“troop”) and a derivative of Proto-Germanic *satjaną (“set”). Cognate with German Drost and Truchsess, Old Norse dróttseti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /drɔst/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: drost
- Rhymes: -ɔst
Noun
drost m (plural drosten, diminutive drostje n)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Polish
Pronunciation
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈdrɔst/
Noun
drost m animacy unattested
- Middle Polish form of drozd
Declension
Attested forms of drost
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | drost | — |
| genitive | — | — |
| dative | — | — |
| accusative | — | — |
| instrumental | — | — |
| locative | — | — |
| vocative | — | — |
References
- Wiesław Morawski (02.01.2020), “DROZD”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
Welsh
Etymology
From drost-, the stem of inflected personal forms of dros.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /drɔsd/, [drɔst]
Preposition
drost (triggers soft mutation)
- (North Wales, colloquial) alternative form of dros