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biest.

beest, colostrum, beestings

5 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/bist/
  1. beest, colostrum, beestings

    feminine · no-diminutive · uncountable
    Het pasgeboren kalf heeft de biest al op.
    Deeze eerste Biest …, als meede de tweede, word altoos aan het jong geworpen kalf te drinken gegeven; dog de derde en vierde, enz. veel door de huislieden gebruikt, om met bijvoeging van meel, enz. pannekoeken en zelfs wafelen van te bakken…
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch biest, from Old Dutch *biest, from Proto-West Germanic *beust. Cognate with Old Saxon biost, Middle Low German bêst, German Low German Biest, Old High German biost, Middle High German biest, German Biest, Old Frisian *biāst, North Frisian bjārst, bjüst, Saterland Frisian Biaost, West Frisian bjist, Old English bēost, English beest. More distantly related to Old High German biastr, Palatine German Briester, Switzerland German Briešt.

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