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-most

suffix
/ˌməʊst/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *-umô Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Indo-European *-tHós Proto-Indo-European *-istHos Proto-Germanic *-istaz Proto-Germanic *-umistaz Old English -mest Middle English -mest ▲ Middle English [Term?]influ. Middle English -most English -most From Middle English -most(e), from earlier -mest, from Old English -(e)mest, from Proto-Germanic *-umistaz, from the comparative suffix *-umô (from Proto-Indo-European *-mHo-) + the regular superlative suffix *-istaz (whence English -est). The Middle English form is due to conflation with the originally unrelated superlative most. See foremost for more.

  1. derived from *-mHo-✻
  2. inherited from *-umistaz✻
  3. inherited from -mest
  4. inherited from -most

Definitions

  1. Furthest

    Furthest; -est; used to form superlatives of certain adjectives, especially directional and inherently-comparative ones.

    • eastern + -most → easternmost
    • nether + -most → nethermost

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -most. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA