German

Noun

Gast m ‎(genitive Gastes or Gasts, plural Gäste, feminine Gästin)

1. guest

Usage notes

Gast is one of the few German masculine nouns referring to human beings that has no feminine equivalent. Gast is used for both male and female guests.

Declension

Derived terms

English

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To frighten

   And be not so a-gast, for shame! —Geoffrey Chaucer, The House of Fame

   Or whether gasted by the noise I made, full suddenly he fled. —William Shakespeare, King Lear

Anagrams

• gats, stag, tags

Breton

Noun

gast f

1. (vulgar, pejorative) whore, bitch

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɑst/, /xɑst/
• 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

• (guest): gastheer
• (apprentice): meester, stagemeester

Derived terms

• eregast
• gastenverblijf
• gastheer, gastvrouw
• gasthuis
• gastorganisme
• gastvriend
• gastvrijheid
• bakkersgast
• slagersgast
• spuitgast
• vergasten

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

• gæst

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

• gāstan — to meditate
• gāstberend (æ) m — living soul, man.
• gāstbona m — soul-slayer, the Devil
• gāstbrūcende — practicing in the spirit
• gāstcofa m — breast
• gāstcund — spiritual
• gāstcwalu f — torment, pains of ****
• gāstcyning m. soul's king, God
• gāstedom — spirituality
• gāstgedāl n — death
• gāstgehygd n — thought
• gāstgemynd n — thought
• gāstgenīþla m — devil
• gāstgerȳne n — spiritual mystery: thought, consideration.
• gāstgewinn n — soul-torment, pains of ****
• gāstgifu f — special gift of the Holy Spirit (gift of tongues)
• gāsthālig — holy in spirit, holy.
• gāstlēas — lifeless, dead, ghostless
• gāstlic — spiritual, holy; clerical, ghastly, spectral
• gāstlīce — spiritually, ghostly
• gāstlufu f — spiritual love
• gāstsunu m — spiritual son, Christ

Descendants

• Middle English: gast, gost
  • Scots: gast, gaist
  • English: ghost

Old French

Alternative forms

• wast

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

• English: waste (from the variant wast)

References

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (gast)
• gast on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis, whence also Old Norse gestr.

Noun

gast m ‎(plural gesti)

1. guest

Declension

Descendants

• German: Gast
• Yiddish: גאַסט ‎(gast)

Old Saxon

Etymology

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

Noun

gast m

1. guest

Declension

Swedish

Noun

gast c

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

Declension

Welsh

Noun

gast f (plural geist)

1. (vulgar, pejorative) bitch

Mutation