Gast
English edit
Etymology edit
- 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 noun edit
Gast (plural Gasts)
- A surname.
Anagrams edit
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German gast, from Old High German gast. Cognate with English guest.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Gast m (strong, genitive Gastes or Gasts, plural Gäste, feminine Gästin) (the feminine form is rare)
Usage notes edit
Gast is one of the few German masculine nouns referring to human beings that has no common feminine equivalent. The masculine noun Gast is used for both male and female guests.
Declension edit
Declension of Gast [masculine, strong]
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “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