gestr

See also: gestr.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Norse *ᚷᚨᛊᛏᛁᛉ (*gastiʀ) (attested in several name compounds), from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, whence come also Old English ġiest, Old High German gast. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis.

Noun

gestr m (genitive gests, plural gestir)

1. guest

Declension

Declension of gestr (strong i-stem, s-genitive)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gestr	gestrinn	gestir	gestirnir
accusative	gest	gestinn	gesti	gestina
dative	gest	gestinum	gestum	gestunum
genitive	gests	gestsins	gesta	gestanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: gestur
• Faroese: gestur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gjest
• Norwegian Bokmål: gjest
• Old Swedish: gæster
  • Swedish: gäst
• Old Danish: gæst
  • Danish: gæst
• → Middle English: gest, geste, gist, geast, gyst
  • English: guest
  • Scots: guest

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “gestr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive