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Oost
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oost
English
Proper noun
en river c/Germany.
en resort c/Suriname.
Anagrams
en oost soot Toso SOTO otos soto Soto OOTS
Dutch
Etymology
(Noord-Holland) Potentially attested as ten oesten in 1377, attested with certainty as Oost in 1839-1859. Derived from nl oost east.
(Limburg) See nl Oost-Maarland.
Pronunciation
nl /oːst/
nl Nl-oost.ogg
nl Oost
nl oːst 1
nl oost
Proper noun
n
nl village mun/Texel p/North Holland c/Netherlands
nl former municipality p/Limburg c/Netherlands
References
oost
Low German
Etymology
From nds gml ôst, from nds osx *ōst, from nds gmw-pro *ōst branch; node; crotch; knot.
Noun
m Oosten,Ööst nds GLG
a knot in a tree; burl
a knothole