-st
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle English -st; see -est.
-st
From the written form of first; see further etymology there.
-st
From -s + -t of excrescent suffixes, with -s sometimes genitive.
-st
When there is a shorter synonymous word (as in amongst/among), the form with -st is generally considered more formal, old-fashioned or affected in American English; whereas both are usually interchangeable in British English.
However, against is distinct in meaning from again, and midst is used in some contexts distinctly from mid.
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