First vs Furst - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between first and furst

is that first is preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest while furst is eye dialect of lang=en.

As adverbs the difference between first and furst

is that first is before anything else; firstly while furst is eye dialect of lang=en.

As a noun first

is the person or thing in the first position.

first

English

(wikipedia first)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .

Alternative forms

* firste (archaic) * fyrst (obsolete) * fyrste (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)

Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}

Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.

* 1784 : William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c. , PREFACE

THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and di?tingui?h it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.

Alternative forms

* ; (in names of monarchs and popes) I

Adverb

(-)

Before anything else; firstly.

* , chapter=8

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.}}

Noun

(uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.

* 1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations

Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

(uncountable) The first gear of an engine.

(countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.

(countable, baseball) first base

(countable, British, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.

(countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.

A fraction of an integer ending in one.

Derived terms

* feet first * firstborn * first-class * first gear * first imperative (Latin grammar) * first of all * first place * first things first * first up

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), (m), . See also (l).

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) Time; time granted; respite.

Statistics

Anagrams

* * 100 English basic words English locatives English sequence adverbs English ordinal numbers 1000 English basic words

furst

English

Adjective

* {{quote-book, year=1862, author=Edwin Waugh, title=Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=They wur not paid for weet days at th' furst ; an' they geet it into their yeds at Shorrock were to blame. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1888, author=Frances Hodgson Burnett, title=Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="An' it black noight, an' men and women wild in the drink; an' Pat Harrigan insoide bloind an' mad in liquor, an' it's turned me an' the children out he has to shlape in the snow--an' not the furst toime either. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1936-1938, author=Work Projects Administration, title=Slave Narratives – A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves – The Ohio Narratives, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="De furst work I done to get my food wuz to carry water in de field to de hands dat wuz workin'. }}

Adverb

* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=W. W. Jacobs, title=Sea Urchins, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=I took a v'y'ge to Australia furst , just to put her out o' my mind a bit, an' I never seed her since. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Randall Parrish, title=Beth Norvell, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="I was thinkin' it over, Stutter, all the way hoofin' it out yere," he said, chewing continually on his tobacco, "but sorter reckoned ez how yer ought ter see the writin' furst , considerin' ez how you're a full partner in this yere claim. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1920, author=James B. Hendryx, title=The Gold Girl, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He started in on Microby Dandeline--we jest called her Dandeline furst , bein' thet yallar with janders when she wus a baby, but when she got about two year, I wus a readin' a piece in a paper a man left, 'bout these yere little microbys thet gits into everywheres they shouldn't ort to, jest like she done, so I says to Watts how she'd ort to had two names anyways, only I couldn't think of none but common ones when we give her hern. }}