Proto-Germanic: *xáis=, *xaistra-z
Meaning: young tree
Old Saxon: Hēsi-wald
Middle Dutch: heester
Dutch: heester m. `boomastige struik', dial. `jonge stam van eiken of beuken'; hees (in plaatsnamen)
Middle Low German: heister, hēster m. `junger Baum, nam. von Eichen und Buchen'
Middle High German: heister st. m. 'junger buchenstamm, buchenknüttel', st. n. 'gebälk'
German: { Heister `large seedling (more than 2 m. high' }
