Gast

See also: gast and gäst

English

Etymology

• As a German surname, from Gast (“guest”) (see below).
• As an Alemannic German surname, shortened from the personal Germanic names Arbogast and Gastolf.
• As a French surname, from Old French gast (“wasteland”).

Proper noun

Gast (plural Gasts)

1. A surname​.

Anagrams

• ATGs, GATS, GTAs, TAGs, gats, stag, tags

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German gast, from Old High German gast. From Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”). Cognate with English guest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡast]

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Noun

Gast m (genitive Gastes or Gasts, plural Gäste, female Gast or Gästin)

1. guest

Usage notes

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.

Declension

Declension of Gast

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Gast	die	Gäste
genitive	eines	des	Gastes, Gasts	der	Gäste
dative	einem	dem	Gast, Gaste1	den	Gästen
accusative	einen	den	Gast	die	Gäste

¹Now uncommon, see notes

Derived terms

• Abendgast
• Badegast
• Fahrgast
• Feriengast
• Festgast
• Gastarbeiter
• Gästezimmer
• gastfrei
• gastfreundlich
• Gastfreundlichkeit
• Gastfreundschaft
• Gastgeber
• Gasthaus
• Gasthof
• Gästin
• gastlich
• Gastmahl
• Gaststätte
• Hausgast
• Hotelgast
• Stammgast
• Tagesgast
• Urlaubsgast
• Zaungast

 

Further reading

• “Gast” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) , “Gast”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891