Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/haistr

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Unknown; suggested to be from Proto-Germanic *haistraz, from unattested *haistaz (“cut, hewn”) +‎ *-draz (tree suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-tó-s, from *kh₂eyd- (“to cut, hew”) +‎ *-tós.^[1][2]

*haistr m

1. young tree

• Old Saxon: *hēstar
  • Middle Low German: hēster, heister
    • German Low German: Heester, Heister, Häister
    • → Swedish: hestra, hester
• Old Dutch: *hēster, *heister
  • Middle Dutch: heester
    • Dutch: heester
• Old High German: *heistar
  • Middle High German: heister
    • German: Heister
• → Vulgar Latin: *hēstrus
  • Old French: hestre
    • Middle French: hestre
      • French: hêtre