Etymology

yester

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Middle English yester ← Old English ġeostran
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromġeostran“yesterday”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromyester
  3. English todayyester

From Middle English yester, yister, from Old English ġeostran (“yesterday”). Cognate with Dutch gisteren (“yesterday”), German gestern (“yesterday”). More at yesterday.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.