gast

See also: Gast and gäst

English

Etymology

From Middle English gasten, from Old English gǣstan, from Proto-Germanic *gaistijaną. Also spelled ghast due to association with ghost.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɑːst/

Verb

gast (third-person singular simple present gasts, present participle gasting, simple past and past participle gasted)

  1. (obsolete) To frighten.
    • Geoffrey Chaucer, The House of Fame
      And be not so a-gast, for shame!
    • William Shakespeare, King Lear
      Or whether gasted by the noise I made, full suddenly he fled.

Anagrams

Breton

Noun

gast f (plural gasted)

  1. (vulgar, pejorative) whore, bitch

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣɑst/, /xɑst/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑst

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *gast, from Proto-Germanic *gastiz.

Noun

gast m (plural gasten, diminutive gastje n)

  1. guest
  2. (chiefly in combinations) knave, worker, apprentice, delivery boy
  3. (colloquial) dude, chap
Synonyms
  • (guest): genodigde
Antonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

gast

  1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of gassen
  2. (archaic) plural imperative of gassen

Gothic

Romanization

gast

  1. Romanization of 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From (West) Proto-Germanic *gaistaz. Cognate with Old Frisian gāst, Old Frisian gēst, Dutch geest, Old High German geist (German Geist). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeysd-, *ǵʰisd- (“anger, agitation”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɑːst/

Noun

gāst m

  1. A soul, spirit, breath
    • Ne ne is gāst on mūþe heora. — There is not breath in their mouths.
    • Se gāst is hræd. — The spirit is nimble.

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

Old French

Alternative forms

Noun

gast m (oblique plural gaz or gatz, nominative singular gaz or gatz, nominative plural gast)

  1. destruction

Adjective

gast m (oblique and nominative feminine singular gaste)

  1. destroyed; ravaged; decimated

Descendants

References

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gastiz (whence also Old Norse gestr), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis; cognate with Latin hostis (“enemy”).

Noun

gast m (plural gesti)

  1. guest

Declension

Descendants

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gastiz, whence also Old English ġiest.

Noun

gast m

  1. guest

Declension


Descendants

  • Middle Low German: gast
    • Westphalian:
      Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Gast
      Sauerländisch: Gast
      Westmünsterländisch: Gast
    • Plautdietsch: Gaust
    • → West Frisian: gast

Swedish

Noun

gast c

  1. A crew member on a ship
  2. (dated or poetic, dialect) A ghost

Declension

Declension of gast 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative gast gasten gastar gastarna
Genitive gasts gastens gastars gastarnas

Welsh

Noun

gast f (plural geist)

  1. (vulgar, pejorative) bitch

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
gast ast ngast unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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