yester-
pref.（前缀）
语源
pref.（前缀）
- Yesterday:
昨天：
yestermorning.
昨天上午
语源
- Middle English
中古英语 - from Old English geostran * see dhgh(y)es-
源自 古英语 geostran *参见 dhgh(y)es-
yester-
prefix
indicating the day before today
⇒
yesterday
indicating a period of time before the present one
⇒
yesteryear
Origin
Old English geostran; compare German gestern, Latin hesternus of yesterdayyester-
Word Origin
1
a combining form, now unproductive, occurring in words that denote an extent of time one period prior to the present period, the nature of the period being specified by the second element of the compound:
yesterweek.
Origin
Middle English; Old English geostran, giestron; cognate with Dutch gisteren, German gestern; akin to Latin hesternus of yesterday
Related Words
- yesterday
- yestereve
- yesterevening
- yestermorning
- yesternight
- yesternoon
yester-a word element meaning:
1. being, or belonging to, the day next before the present: ◆ yesterevening; ◆ yesternight; ◆ yestermorning.
2. being that preceding the present: ◆ yesterweek.
[backformation from yesterday]yester-
combining form
- poetic/literary or archaic of yesterday〈诗/文, 古〉表示“昨天的”：
-
yestereve.
词源
Old English geostran, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gisteren and German gestern 'yesterday'， from an Indo-European root shared by Latin heri and Greek khthes.
1806 Coleridge Let. to D. Stuart 18 Aug.,I..have found myself so unusually better ever since I leaped on land *yester-afternoon.
1870 Swinburne Ess. &Stud. (1875) 97A poet of the first order..puts the life-blood of an equal interest into Hebrew forms or Greek, mediæval or modern, yesterday or *yesterage.
1855 Hyde Clarke Dict. ,*Yester-noon.
1872 M. Collins in Frances Collins M.C.,Lett. etc., (1877) I. 106,I saw some swallows yesternoon at the parsonage.
1888 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 105Delightfully the bright wind boisterous ropes, wrestles, beats earth bare Of *yestertempest's creases.
1839 Mrs. Browning Rom. Page xii,The lady Abbess dead before it, And the chanting nuns whom *yester-week Her voice did charge and bless.
yester-
Old English geostran "yesterday," from Proto-Germanic *gester- (cognates: Old High German gestaron, German gestern "yesterday," Old Norse gær "tomorrow, yesterday," Gothic gistradagis "tomorrow"), originally "the other day" (reckoned from "today," either backward or forward), from PIE root *dhgh(y)es- "yesterday" (cognates: Sanskrit hyah, Avestan zyo, Persian di, Greek khthes, Latin heri, Old Irish indhe, Welsh doe "yesterday;" Latin hesternus "of yesterday").
☞ yester
yester-
Prefix
- rare Belonging to the day preceding the present; next before the present.
- Denoting former, earlier, or previous times.
Etymology
From Middle English yester-, yister-, from Old English ġeostran-, ġiestran- (“previous day, prior day”), from Proto-Germanic *gistr- (“yesterday”) (cf. Dutch gisteren, German Gestern), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰyes- (“yesterday”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰- (gistra-, “tomorrow”), Latin hesternus (“of yesterday”), Ancient Greek χθές (khthés, “yesterday”). More at yesterday.
Derived terms
English words prefixed with yester-