different between gast vs gats

English

Etymology

From Middle English gasten, from Old English g?stan, from Proto-Germanic *gaistijan?. Also spelled ghast due to association with ghost.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æst/

Verb

gast (third-person singular simple present gasts, present participle gasting, simple past and past participle gasted)

1. (obsolete) To frighten.
   • c. 1374-1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Hous of Fame

     And be not so a-gast, for shame!

Anagrams

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

Breton

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gast f (plural gisti)

1. (vulgar, derogatory) whore, bitch

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st/
• Hyphenation: gast
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *gast, from Proto-Germanic *gastiz.

Noun

gast m (plural gasten, diminutive gastje n)

1. guest

   Synonym: genodigde

   Antonyms: gastheer, gastvrouw

2. (chiefly in combinations) knave, worker, apprentice, delivery boy

   Antonyms: meester, stagemeester

3. (colloquial) dude, guy

   Synonyms: gozer, vent

Derived terms

• vergasten
• bakkersgast
• eregast
• slagersgast
• spuitgast
• gastenverblijf
• gastheer
• gasthuis
• gastorganisme
• gastrecht
• gastvriend
• gastvrij
• gastvrouw

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gast

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of gassen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of gassen

Gothic

Romanization

gast

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Verb

gast

1. singular past indicative of getast

Middle English

Noun

gast

1. Alternative form of gost

Old English

Alternative forms

• g?st, gaast

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???st/

Noun

g?st m (nominative plural g?stas)

1. spirit

2. ghost
3. breath

Declension

Derived terms

• g?stl?? (“spiritual”)

Descendants

• Middle English: gast, gost
  • Scots: gast, gaist
  • English: ghost

Old French

Alternative forms

• wast

Noun

gast m (oblique plural gaz or gatz, nominative singular gaz or gatz, nominative plural gast)

1. destruction

Adjective

gast m (oblique and nominative feminine singular gaste)

1. destroyed; ravaged; decimated

Descendants

• English: waste (from the variant wast)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (gast)
• gast on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• g?st

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gaist. Cognates include Old English g?st and Old Saxon g?st.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?st/

Noun

g?st m

1. ghost, spirit

Descendants

• Saterland Frisian: Gäist
• West Frisian: geast

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gasti, see also Old Norse gestr, Latin hostis (“enemy”).

Noun

gast m (plural gesti)

1. guest

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: gast
  • German: Gast
    • ? Esperanto: gasto
  • Luxembourgish: Gaascht
  • Yiddish: ?????? (gast)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gasti, whence also Old English ?iest.

Noun

gast m

1. guest

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: gast
  • Westphalian:

    Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Gast

    Sauerländisch: Gast

    Westmünsterländisch: Gast

  • Plautdietsch: Gaust
  • ? Saterland Frisian: Gast
  • ? West Frisian: gast

Swedish

Etymology 1

See gäst

Noun

gast c

1. A crew member on a ship

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish gaster, possibly borrowed from Old Frisian g?st, from Proto-West Germanic *gaist.

Noun

gast c

1. (dated or poetic, dialect) A ghost

Declension

Anagrams

• sagt, stag, tags

Welsh

Etymology

From Irish gast, from Proto-Celtic *gasliy?, from *gas, of uncertain ultimate origin, but compare French gouine (“lesbian”), and Proto-Brythonic *gw??in (“sheath”).

Noun

gast f (plural geist)

1. (vulgar, derogatory, offensive) bitch

Mutation

References

English

Noun

gats

1. plural of gat

Verb

gats

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gat

Anagrams

• ATGs, GTAs, Gast, TAGs, gast, stag, tags

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /??ats/
• Rhymes: -ats

Noun

gats

1. plural of gat

Occitan

Noun

gats

1. plural of gat