varest
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Estonian[edit]
Noun[edit]
varest
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- varast (varas, vares)
Verb[edit]
varest
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Swedish hvaris, from hvar (“where”) + either a genitival -s or an Old Swedish particle es (“which”). The final -t appears already in Old Swedish by analogy with words like eljest, genast, medelst.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
varest
- (relative, archaic) where (on the place which)
- 1891, Selma Lagerlöf, translated by Pauline Bancroft Flach, Gösta Berlings saga [The Story of Gösta Berling]:
- På sin fladdrande vinge flög en läderlapp oss förbi, flög och syntes igen där, varest månen sken.
- On its fluttering wing a bat flew by us, flew and was seen, wherever the moon shone.
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