þiestre

• þēostor, þēoster, þēostre, þȳstre, þīstre

From Proto-West Germanic *þiustrī (“dark”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈθi͜yːs.tre/

þīestre (comparative þīestra, superlative þīestrest)

1. dark

   on þām þīestrestum hyrnum

   in the darkest corners

   Iċ bēo eft ǣr hit þīestre wierþ.

   I'll be back before it gets dark.

   Þrang þīestre ġenip, þām þe sē þēoden self sċōp nihte naman.

   The gloomy dark thronged, to which the Sovereign himself gave the name of night.

2. gloomy

• This word was not used in the sense “the dark.” Instead the noun þīestru (“darkness”) was used.

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• deorc

• þēostrian
• þīestru

• English: thester

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “þiestre”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• John R. Clark Hall (1916), “þiestre”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan