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. 1374-1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Hous of Fame

     And be not so a-gast, for shame!

   • 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 606515358, [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

• 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

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

   Synonym: genodigde

   Antonyms: gastheer, gastvrouw

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

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

• gāstlīċ (“spiritual”)

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

• wast

Based on Latin vastus (“uncultivated, unoccupied”)

gast 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
  • 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

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

gast c

1. (dated or poetic, dialect) A ghost

• 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