gaast

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːst/

Noun

gaast m

1. (Northumbrian) Alternative form of gāst

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English gaast, from Old English gāst, from Proto-West Germanic *gaist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔːst/

Noun

gaast

1. ghost sprite

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 40