Gast
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
- 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 nounEdit
Gast (plural Gasts)
- A surname.
AnagramsEdit
GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German gast, from Old High German gast. Cognate with English guest.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
Gast m (strong, genitive Gastes or Gasts, plural Gäste, feminine Gast or Gästin)
Usage notesEdit
Gast is one of the few German masculine nouns referring to human beings that has no feminine equivalent. Gast is used for both male and female guests.
DeclensionEdit
Declension of Gast [masculine, strong]
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “Gast” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “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