different between geest vs deest

English

Etymology

A substantivization of Low German güst (“dry and infertile”, adjective), from Middle Low German g?st (“dry, elevated”, literally “cracking, gaping, yawning”), from Old Saxon g?nan, from Proto-West Germanic *g?nan. See also German gähnen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?st/

Noun

geest (plural geests)

1. A type of slightly raised landscape, with sandy and gravelly soils, that occurs in the plains of Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark.
   • 1827, Georges Cuvier, Robert Jameson (translator), Essay on the Theory of the Earth

     the waves, beating agai?st the geest, were thence repelled upon the marsch.

References

Further reading

• geest on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Teges, egest

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gêest, from Old Dutch g?st, geist, from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??eysd-, *??isd- (“anger, agitation”).

Noun

geest m (plural geesten, diminutive geestje n)

1. ghost, spirit

   Geloof jij dat er een geest in een wonderlamp kan zitten?

   Het is in de geest van deze tijd om vooral te genieten van het leven.

2. mind, mental conscience

   Hij probeerde zich te herinneren wat er precies gebeurd was, maar hij kon zich de situatie niet meer voor de geest halen.

3. life force, vital energy
4. (alchemy) spirit, gas, distillate, essence

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gees

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch geest, from Old Dutch *g?st, a nominalization of an adjective that meant “dry, infertile”, a derivation of Proto-Germanic *gais- (“infertile”), a root probably meaning "cracking, breaking, gaping;" see *g?nan. See also German gähnen.

Cognate to West Frisian gaast, geast (as in the Dutch/Frisian place name Gaasterland) and German Geest (which is borrowed from Low German). Other derivations of *gais- are: Old English gæsne (“infertility, poverty”), Old French gast (“waste”) and Icelandic gisinn (“dry”).

Noun

geest m (plural geesten, diminutive geestje n)

2. heath, heathland

Derived terms

• geestgrond

Anagrams

• steeg, stege, geste

References

Middle English

Verb

geest

1. Alternative form of gesten (“to read poetry”)

English

Etymology

From Latin d?sum (“I am missing”).

Noun

deest (plural desunt)

1. Placed after a catalogue abbreviation to indicate that this particular work does not appear in it.

Usage notes

The plural desunt is used when referring to several works.

Anagrams

• Steed, Teeds, deets, steed, tedes

Latin

Verb

d?est

1. third-person singular present active indicative of d?sum