ערגסט
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Yiddish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Old High German arg + ־סט (-st) with umlaut. Compare German ärgsten, and more distantly Dutch ergst. Supplanted the original superlative of שלעכט (shlekht), which likely would have been *שלעכטסט (*shlekhtst).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ערגסט • (ergst)
- superlative degree of שלעכט (shlekht): worst
Declension
[edit]Declension of ערגסט
References
[edit]- Beinfeld, Solon, Bochner, Harry (2013) “ערגסט”, in Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN