name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
leister
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈliːstə/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: /ˈlistɚ/
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rhymes with -iːstə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: L IY1 S T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A spear armed with three or more barbed prongs for catching fish, particularly salmon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: waster
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To catch or spear (fish) with a leister.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
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noun
Meaning 4
a spear with three or more prongs; used for spearing fish (especially salmon)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spear, gig, fizgig, fishgig, lance
History
Etymology
From earlier leyster, lister, perhaps via Middle English *lēster, *līster, from Old Norse ljóstr (“leister”), from ljósta (“to smite, strike; to hit, strike (with an arrow or spear)”), from Proto-Germanic *leustaną (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew-s- (“to loosen (by knocking)”); the word is cognate with Danish lyster (“fish spear, gig, leister”), Icelandic ljósta (“to hit, strike”), Norwegian Bokmål lyster (dialectal Norwegian lioster), Swedish ljuster.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: тризъбец (trizǎbec) — spear with barbed prongs for catching fish
- Danish: lyster — spear with barbed prongs for catching fish
- Finnish: atrain — spear with barbed prongs for catching fish
- German: Fischspeer — spear with barbed prongs for catching fish
- Norwegian Bokmål: lyster — spear with barbed prongs for catching fish
- Norwegian Nynorsk: lyster — spear with barbed prongs for catching fish
- Norwegian Nynorsk: geir — spear with barbed prongs for catching fish
- Polish: oścień — spear with barbed prongs for catching fish
- Russian: острога́ (ostrogá) — spear with barbed prongs for catching fish
- Swedish: ljuster — spear with barbed prongs for catching fish
- Norwegian Bokmål: lystre — to catch (fish) with a leister