Gast
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- As a German surname, from Gast (“guest”) (see below).
- As an Alemannic German surname, shortened from the personal Germanic names Arbogast and Gastolf (compare German Gasthof).
- As a French surname, from Old French gast (“wasteland”).
Proper noun
[edit]Gast (plural Gasts)
- A surname.
Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]Gast m (strong, genitive Gastes or Gasts, plural Gäste, feminine (uncommon) Gästin or Gastin)
Usage notes
[edit]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.
Declension
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- Abendgast
- Badegast
- Ballgast
- Cafégast
- Dauergast
- Ehrengast
- Fahrgast
- Feriengast
- Festgast
- Fluggast
- Gasthausgast
- Hausgast
- Hochzeitsgast
- Hotelgast
- Jagdgast
- Kurgast
- Kurzzeitgast
- Langzeitgast
- Messegast
- Mittagsgast
- Nachtgast
- Partygast
- Pensionsgast
- Premierengast
- Schlafgast
- Sommergast
- Sonntagsgast
- Staatsgast
- Stammgast
- Stargast
- Studiogast
- Tafelgast
- Tagesgast
- Tischgast
- Trauergast
- Übernachtungsgast
- Überraschungsgast
- Urlaubsgast
- VIP-Gast
- Wintergast
- Wirtshausgast
- Zaungast
Derived terms
[edit]- Gastarbeiter
- Gastauftritt
- Gastausstellung
- Gastbeitrag
- Gastbett
- Gastbruder
- Gastclub
- Gastdirigent
- Gastdozent
- Gästeansturm
- Gästeaufkommen
- Gästebegleiter
- Gästebetreuer
- Gästebetreuung
- Gästebett
- Gästeblock
- Gästebuch
- Gästehaus
- Gästekarte
- Gästeliste
- Gasteltern
- Gästeparkplatz
- Gästeplus
- Gästeschar
- Gästesieg
- Gästetaxe
- Gästeticket
- Gästetormann
- Gästetorwart
- Gästetrainer
- Gästetrakt
- Gästetribüne
- Gästezimmer
- Gastfamilie
- gastfrei
- Gastfreund
- gastfreundlich
- Gastfreundschaft
- Gastgarten
- gastgebend
- Gastgeber
- Gastgeschenk
- Gastgewerbe
- Gasthaus
- Gasthof
- Gasthörer
- Gastkommentar
- Gastkonzert
- Gastland
- Gastläufer
- gastlich
- Gastmahl
- Gastmannschaft
- Gastpredigt
- Gastprofessor
- Gastprofessur
- Gastprostitution
- Gastraum
- Gastrecht
- Gastredner
- Gastregisseur
- Gastrolle
- Gastschauspieler
- Gastschüler
- Gastschwester
- Gastspiel
- Gaststätte
- Gaststatus
- Gaststube
- Gaststudent
- Gastvertrag
- Gastvolk
- Gastvorlesung
- Gastvorstellung
- Gastvortrag
- Gastwirt
- Gastwirtschaft
Further reading
[edit]- “Gast”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)
- “Gast” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Gast” in Duden online
Gast on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Gast”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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