gast

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɑːst/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡæst/
• Rhymes: -ɑːst, -æst

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

1. (obsolete) To frighten.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     Or whether gasted by the noise I made, full suddenly he fled.

• ATGs, GATS, GTAs, TAGs, gats, stag, tags

Borrowed from Old Irish gast, from Proto-Celtic *gasliyā, from *gas, of uncertain ultimate origin, but compare French gouine (“lesbian”), and Proto-Brythonic *gwėɣin (“sheath”).^[1]

gast f (plural gisti)

1. (vulgar, derogatory) whore, bitch

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From Old Frisian gāst, from Proto-West Germanic *gaist. Doublet of gejst.

gast

1. (obsolete) ghost, revenant

   Synonyms: spøgelse, genganger, genfærd, gespenst

From German Gast (“guest”), from Proto-West Germanic *gasti. Doublet of gæst.

gast c (singular definite gasten, plural indefinite gaster)

1. a (unspecialized) crewmember on a ship

   Synonyms: matros, sømand

• “gast” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

• IPA^(key): /ɣɑst/

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• Hyphenation: gast
• Rhymes: -ɑst

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

gast m (plural gasten, diminutive gastje n)

1. guest

   Synonym: genodigde

   Antonyms: gastheer, gastvrouw

   Ik heb afgelopen week wat familie te gast gehad. ― Some family members stayed with me as guests last week.

2. (chiefly in combinations) knave, worker, apprentice, delivery boy

   Antonyms: meester, stagemeester

3. (colloquial) dude, guy

   Synonyms: gozer, vent

   Die gast is echt niet goed bij z'n hoofd. ― That guy really isn't right in the head.

   Zijn broer is best een aardige gast. ― His brother is quite a nice guy.

   Gast, waar heb je het nou helemaal over? ― Dude, what are you even on about?

• bakkersgast
• eregast
• gastenverblijf
• gastheer
• gasthuis
• gastorganisme
• gastrecht
• gastvriend
• gastvrij
• gastvrouw
• logeergast
• meestergast
• slaapgast
• slagersgast
• spuitgast
• vergasten

• Negerhollands: gast

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gast

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

gast

1. Romanization of 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄

gast

1. singular past indicative of getast

gast

1. Alternative form of gost

• gǣst, gaast

From Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːst/

gāst m

1. spirit

   sē Hālga Gāst

   the Holy Spirit

   Iċ bēo mid þē on gāste.

   I'll be with you in spirit.

2. ghost
3. breath
4. demon

• gāstlīċ (“spiritual”)

• Middle English: gost, gast, gaast, goost, goste
  • English: ghost
  • Scots: gaist, gast, ghaist
  • Yola: gaast

• wast

Based on Latin vastus (“uncultivated, unoccupied”)

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

1. destruction

gast m (oblique and nominative feminine singular gaste)

1. destroyed; ravaged; decimated

• English: waste (from the variant wast)

• 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

• gēst

From Proto-West Germanic *gaist. Cognates include Old English gāst and Old Saxon gēst.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːst/

gāst m

1. ghost, spirit

• Saterland Frisian: Gäist, Jeest
• West Frisian: geast

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28

From Proto-West Germanic *gasti, see also Old Norse gestr, Latin hostis (“enemy”).

gast m (plural gesti)

1. guest

• gasttuom

• Middle High German: gast
  • Bavarian: Gåst
  • German: Gast
    • → Esperanto: gasto
  • Luxembourgish: Gaascht
  • Yiddish: גאַסט (gast)

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

gast m

1. guest

• Middle Low German: gast
  • Westphalian:

    Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Gast

    Sauerländisch: Gast

    Westmünsterländisch: Gast

  • Plautdietsch: Gaust
  • → Saterland Frisian: Gast
  • → West Frisian: gast

See gäst

gast c

1. A crew member on a ship
   • 1882, Carl Eneroth, Humoresker till lands och sjös, page 10:

     Gastarne på Gefion hade öfverraskat några makliga sköldpaddor, som tagit sig en stadigare tupplur hitanför Gibraltar, och de der tystlåtna gökarne skänktes bort af kaptenen hit och dit, så att slutligen blott en fans öfrig.

     The crew of the Gefion had surprised a few lazy turtles, who had taken a more substantial nap hither of Gibraltar, and those silent fellows were given away by the captain here and there, so that at last only one remained.

From Old Swedish gaster, possibly borrowed from Old Frisian gāst, from Proto-West Germanic *gaist.

gast c

1. A ghost

   Synonym: vålnad

The more common word for ghost is spöke.

• gastkramande

• gast in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gast in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gast in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• sagt, stag, tags

From Irish gast, from Proto-Celtic *gasliyā, from *gas, of uncertain ultimate origin, but compare French gouine (“lesbian”), and Proto-Brythonic *gwėɣin (“sheath”).^[1]

gast f (plural geist)

1. (vulgar, derogatory, offensive) bitch