English

Adverb

earst ‎(not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of erst
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1921), Book I:

     So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right, And each to deadly shame would drive his foe: The cruell steele so greedily doth bight 75 In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow, With which the armes, that earst so bright did show, Into a pure vermillion now are dyde: Great ruth in all the gazers harts did grow, Seeing the gored woundes to gape so wyde, 80 That victory they dare not wish to either side.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian ērosta. Compare Dutch eerst, German and archaic English erst

Adverb

earst

1. firstly, at first

Adjective

earst (infl. earste)

1. first