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Old English · noun

gast

Normalised gāst

Part of speech
noun, masculine
Declension
strong a-stem
IPA
/ɡɑːst/
Syllables
ɡɑːst (1 syllable)
Modern English
ghostspirit

Meaning

  1. spirit

    Þā besēah Martinus wið þǣs sċeoccan lēoht, ġemyndiġ on mōde hū sē Metoda Drihten cwæð on his godspelle þe his godcundan tōcyme, and cwæð tō ðām lēasan mid ġelǣredum mūðe, "Ne sǣde ūre Hǣlend þæt hē swā wolde bēon mid purpuran gehīwod, oððe mid helme scīnende, þonne hē eft cōme mid engla ðrymme." Đā fordwān sē deofol drēoriġ him fram, and sēo stōw ðā stanc mid orm

    Then Martinus beheld the demon's light, mindful of what the Lord God said in his gospel about his divine coming, and said to the false one with learned mouth, "Our Savior did not say that he would be habited in purple, or that he would have a shining crown, when he came again with a host of angels." Then the sad devil disappeared, and the place stank with a powerful stench after the presence of th

    Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
  2. ghost

  3. breath

  4. demon

Declension

Declension of gast
SingularPlural
Nominative gāstgāstas
Accusative gāstgāstas
Genitive gāstesgāsta
Dative gāstegāstum

All forms (6)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz.

Descendants

ghost

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