different between gost vs goest

English

Alternative forms

• ghost

Etymology

From Middle English gost, see below.

Noun

gost (plural gosts)

1. Obsolete form of ghost.

Related terms

• geist

References

• gost in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• GTOs, gots, stog, togs

Middle English

Alternative forms

• gast, goost, goste

Etymology

From Old English g?st, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Noun

gost (plural gostes)

1. a spiritual being; angel, devil, spirit; soul of a dead person
   • 1386, Chaucer, Legend of Good Women:

     This nyght my faderes gost Hath in my slep so sore me tormented.

   • 1500, The Towneley Plays:

     The gost went to hell a pase whils the cors lay slayn, And broght the sawles from sathanas.

   • 1525, English Conquest of Ireland:

     The dede to areren, yuel gostes to quethen.

2. the Holy Ghost
   • Goddes gost is þe geven. — Cleanness, c1400
3. A villain, scoundrel; a devil incarnate; a wicked-looking creature
   • In þat doynge Paternus the monk semeþ a lewed goost. — Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, 1387
4. The soul of man, spiritual nature
   • ?e cursed gostes, goþ in-to þe pyne of helle! — Seint Ieremie telleþ, c1400
   • Lyfe is none quen gost is lede. — A Stanzaic Life of Christ, 1500
5. A spiritual force or insight, a gift of prophecy
   • A haþel in þy holde..hatz þe gostes of God þat gyes alle soþes. — Cleanness, c1400
6. A breath, blowing, wind; God's breath, a spiritual wind; the blowing of storm
   • Gost-wynd nedefull is to recouer monnes gost þat greued is. — A Stanzaic Life of Christ, 1500

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: ghost
• Scots: gaist, gast, ghaist
• Yola: gaast

References

• “g?st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin gustus, from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *?éwstus. Numerous cognates include Catalan gust, Italian gusto and French goût.

Noun

gost m (plural gosts)

1. taste (of food, drink, etc.)

Derived terms

• gostós

See also

• tastar

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gost?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?óstis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ô?st/, /?ôst/

Noun

g?st m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. guest

   Svakog gosta tri dana dosta. - [For] every guest three days is enough. (proverb)

Declension

References

• “gost”, in ?????? ???????????????? ????????? ?????? (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 1, ????? ?????????? ?????? edition, ???? ???, ??????: ?????? ??????, ?????? ????????, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 542
• “gost” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *gost?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?óstis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???st/

Noun

g?st m anim

1. guest

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *g?st?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ó?st/

Adjective

g??st (comparative gost?jši, superlative n?jgost?jši)

1. dense

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “gost”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

gost m (plural gest)

1. guest

Zazaki

Etymology

Compare Persian ????? (gušt).

Noun

gost ?

1. meat

English

Etymology

go +? -est

Verb

goest

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of go

   • Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     "Ha," said Robin, "comest thou from Locksley Town? Well do I know that fair place for miles about, and well do I know each hedgerow and gentle pebbly stream, and even all the bright little fishes therein, for there I was born and bred. Now, where goest thou with thy meat, my fair friend?"

Anagrams

• go set, gotes, stoge, toges