gierst

From Middle Dutch heerse, from Proto-Germanic *hirsijô, potentially derived in turn from an unknown substrate language or, alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“feed, nourish”).

Cognate with Limburgish hirs, Old Saxon hirsi, Plautdietsch Hieezh, Old High German hirsi (German Hirse), Alemannic German Hirse.

• IPA^(key): /xiːrst/

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• Hyphenation: gierst
• Rhymes: -iːrst

gierst f (uncountable)

1. millet (any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food)

-general:

-types of millet:

• → West Frisian: gierst

• griste

• IPA^(key): /ɡiːɐ̯st/

gierst

1. second-person singular present of gieren