vestan
English
Adjective
vestan (not comparable)
- Alternative form of Vestan
Anagrams
- vasten, ventas
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *westanē (“from the west”), from *westraz (“west”) + *-anē.
Adverb
vestan (not comparable)
- from the west
- (with genitive) on the western side of
Coordinate terms
- (from compass point): austan, norðan, sunnan
Derived terms
- vestanferð f (“journey from the west”)
- vestanmaðr m (“a man from the west”)
- vestanveðr n (“west wind”)
- vestanverðr (“western, westerly”, adjective)
- vestanvindr m (“west wind”)
Related terms
- vestr (“west”)
- vestrœnn (“western”)
- vestri (“westerlier”)
References
- vestan in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press