different between gost vs goss

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

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Clipping of gossip.

Noun

goss (uncountable)

1. (slang) gossip.

   The hottest goss in celeb-land today is that Angelina Jolie is jealous of her fella's relationship with his ex-wife.

Etymology 2

See gorse.

Noun

goss (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of gorse.
   • 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, IV. i. 180:

     through / Toothed briars, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns,

Etymology 3

Noun

goss (plural gosses)

1. (slang, obsolete) A hat.
   • 1838, Actors by Daylight (volume 1, page 143)

     He now states, as one of the miseries of being tall, his frequent collision with the shop blinds projecting over the footway, which endanger his head—or what is of more consequence to him, his hat. Some malicious people, on seeing him in full chase up Regent-street after his goss. (a la Pickwick) compared his activity to a snail in full gallop, while others remarked on his affinity to a spider after a fly.

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• GSOs, sogs

German

Pronunciation

Verb

goss

1. first/third-person singular preterite of gießen

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?s?

Noun

goss

1. indefinite genitive singular of gos

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Old High German gazza, from Proto-Germanic *gatw?. Cognate with German Gasse.

Noun

goss f (plural gossa)

1. street

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English gorst, from Old English gorst, from Proto-Germanic *gurstaz.

Noun

goss

1. gorse

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN