Noun: bast
Gender: n
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | bast |
| Sg. Def. | bastið |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | basts |
| Sg. Def. | bastsins |
Dative
| Sg. Indef. | basti |
| Sg. Def. | bastinum |
Accusative
| Sg. Indef. | bast |
| Sg. Def. | bastið |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like bast
safran,
samkyn,
sjampo,
silvur,
brennivín,
fyrilit,
djóralív,
skerpikjøt,
samsvar,
gjárkvøld,
neytakjøt,
fleirtal,
krabbamein,
skarlak,
nýsilvur,
beinkrím,
gø,
alnet,
ahorn,
flesk, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse bast (“bast, inner bark of trees from which ropes were made”), from Proto-West Germanic *bast (“bast, rope”) via a borrowing from West Germanic, perhaps an alteration of Proto-Indo-European *bʰask-, *bʰasḱ- (“bundle”).
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