Old English · noun
giest
Normalised ġiest
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong i-stem
- IPA
- /ji͜yst/
- Syllables
- ji͜yst (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- yeaststrangerguest
giest1 · noun · masculine
Senses
-
stranger
-
guest
-
enemy
Declension · strong i-stem
giest2 · noun · masculine
Senses
-
yeast
Declension · strong a-stem
All forms (6)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *gasti. Cognates Cognate with Old Saxon gast, Middle Dutch gast (Dutch gast), Old High German gast (German Gast), Old Norse gestr (Swedish gäst), Gothic (gasts, “stranger”). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin hostis (“enemy”), Old Church Slavonic (gostĭ), гость (gostĭ) (Russian гость (gostʹ)) and Polish gość.
From Proto-West Germanic *jestu. Cognate with Middle Dutch gest, gist (modern Dutch gist), Old Norse jǫstr (Swedish jäst).
Descendants
yeast
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