kest

See also: kést

English

Verb

kest (third-person singular simple present kests, present participle kesting, simple past and past participle kest)

1. Obsolete spelling of cast.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 42:

     Adowne he kest it with so puissant wrest, / That backe againe it did aloft rebownd, / And gaue against his mother earth a gronefull sownd.

Anagrams

• Kets, TEKS, kets, sket

Estonian

Etymology

Possibly same root as in kesi, from Proto-Finnic *keci.

Noun

kest (genitive kesta, partitive kesta)

1. husk, shell
2. sheath
3. envelope
4. casing, housing
5. hull

Inflection

Declension of kest (ÕS type 22i/külm, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		kest	kestad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	kesta
genitive			kestade
partitive		kesta	kesti kestasid
illative		kesta kestasse	kestadesse kestisse
inessive		kestas	kestades kestis
elative		kestast	kestadest kestist
allative		kestale	kestadele kestile
adessive		kestal	kestadel kestil
ablative		kestalt	kestadelt kestilt
translative		kestaks	kestadeks kestiks
terminative		kestani	kestadeni
essive		kestana	kestadena
abessive		kestata	kestadeta
comitative		kestaga	kestadega

Derived terms

• võrkkest

Further reading

• “kest”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “kest”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012

Tocharian B

Noun

kest

1. hunger