Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adv
First of all, before (some other specified thing). · Sooner (than); before. · Formerly, once, erstwhile.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryFirst.
From Middle English erste, from Old English ǣresta (“first”), from Proto-West Germanic *airist (“earliest, first”), equivalent to ere + -est. Cognate with North Frisian iarst, iáárs, jarst, jest (“first”), West Frisian earst (“first”), Dutch eerste (“first”), German erste (“first”).
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