LEISTER - Definition & Meaning for Kids
Meaning 1
Part of speech: Noun
a spear with three or more prongs; used for spearing fish (especially salmon)
Categories: Spear, Gig, Fizgig, Fishgig, Lance
Synonyms
🌱 Word Origin (Etymology)
The word "leister" comes from Proto-Indo-European *lew-s-. It started in Proto-Germanic *leustaną. Then it appeared in Old Norse ljóstr. Later, people used it in Middle English *lester. Many other languages have similar words:.
- Danish: lyster
- Icelandic: ljósta
- Norwegian Bokmål: lyster
- Norwegian: lioster
- Swedish: ljuster
🧩 Fun Fact
A word passing through this many languages survived because it named something universally important.