*frustaz

Runic: ᚠᚱᚢᛊᛏᚨᛉ Pronunciation: /ˈɸrus.tɑz/

noun · masculine · a-stem

Meanings

cold; frost; freezing weather
frost; rime (minute ice crystals)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *prustós (‘frost’), synchronically analyzable as a nominal formation from *freusaną (‘to freeze’). Cognate with Latin pruīna (‘hoarfrost, frost’).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	frustaz	frustōz, frustōs
Acc.	frustą	frustanz
Gen.	frustas, frustis	frustǫ̂
Dat.	frustai	frustamaz
Inst.	frustō	frustamiz
Voc.	frust	frustōz, frustōs

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Descendants

*frost (Proto-West Germanic)
- *frost, forst (Old Dutch)
  - vorst (Middle Dutch)
    - vorst (Dutch)
    - vrós (Limburgish)
*frost (Proto-West Germanic)
- forst, frost (Old English)
  - frost, forst, froste, vrost, frosst, freost (Middle English)
    - frost (English)
    - frost (Scots)
    - vrosth, vroste, vrast (Yola)
*frost (Proto-West Germanic)
- frost, forst (Old Frisian)
  - Froast, Fröäst (Saterland Frisian)
  - froast (West Frisian)
*frost (Proto-West Germanic)
- frost (Old High German)
  - vrost (Middle High German)
    - vròst, bròst, vrost (Cimbrian)
    - Frost (German)
    - Frascht (Luxembourgish)
    - fröst (Vilamovian)
*frost (Proto-West Germanic)
- frost (Old Saxon)
  - vrost (Middle Low German)
    - Fröst (German Low German)
frost (Old Norse)
- frost (Danish)
- frost, frostur (Faroese)
- frost (Icelandic)
- frost (Norwegian)
frost (Old Norse)
- frost (Old Swedish)
  - frost (Swedish)

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