allererst

Middle High German

Alternative forms

  • alērste, alrērste, alrērst, alrēst, allerērste, allerēriste

Etymology

From Old High German allero ērist.[1]

Adverb

allerērst

  1. only, just, only just
  2. firstly, first of all
  3. a fortiori

Adjective

allerērst

  1. (Early New High German) firstly, first of all [from 15th c.]

Declension

Descendants

  • German: allererste, allererst
  • Alemannic German: allererscht, allererst
  • Luxembourgish: alleréischt
  • Yiddish: אַלערערשט (alerersht)

References

  1. Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “allererst”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

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