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Gast

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See also: gast, gäst, and Gåst

English

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Etymology

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Proper noun

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Gast (plural Gasts)

  1. A surname.

Anagrams

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German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German gast, from Old High German gast, from Proto-West Germanic *gasti, from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis.

Germanic cognates include Dutch gast, English guest, Old Norse gestr (whence Swedish gäst, Danish gæst, Norwegian Nynorsk gjest, Norwegian Bokmål gjest, Icelandic gestur), and Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts).

Indo-European cognates include Latin hostis (whence Italian oste, Spanish hoste/hueste, and French ost) and Proto-Slavic *gostь (whence Russian гость (gostʹ), Polish gość, and Serbo-Croatian gȏst).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

  1. guest

Usage notes

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Gast is one of the few German masculine nouns referring to human beings that has no common feminine equivalent: Gast m is used for both male and female guests. However, the old feminine form Gästin has seen some recent use to avoid Gast in some contexts.

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