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snast
English
Noun
snast (plural snasts)
- Alternative form of snaste
Further reading
- snast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Nasts, Sants, Tsans, stans
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gnast
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æst
Etymology 1
From Middle English gnast, knast, from Old English *gn?st (“spark”) (attested in f?rgn?st (“spark of fire”)), from Proto-Germanic *gahnaistô (“spark”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- + Proto-Germanic *hnaistô (“spark”), perhaps from the ultimate (imitative) source of German knistern (“to crackle”).
Cognate with German dialectal Ganster (“spark”), Danish gnist (“spark, sparkle”), Swedish gnista (“spark”), Icelandic gneisti, neisti (“spark”), German Gneis (“spark, gneiss”) (whence English gneiss).
Noun
gnast (plural gnasts)
- (obsolete) A spark; a dying or dead spark, as of a snuffed candle.
Etymology 2
From Middle English gnasten, gnaisten, from Old English *gn?stan, from Proto-Germanic *gnaistijan?, causative of *gn?stijan? (“to grind”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghneidh-, *g?neyd- (“to gnaw, scratch, rub”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian knasterje (“to gnash”), German Low German gnatschen (“to knead, gnash”), German knastern (“to gnash”), Icelandic gnesta (“to crack”).
Verb
gnast (third-person singular simple present gnasts, present participle gnasting, simple past and past participle gnasted)
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To gnash.
Derived terms
- gnasting
References
Anagrams
- 'ganst, Gnats, Stang, Tangs, Tsang, angst, gnat's, gnats, stang, tangs
Middle English
Alternative forms
- gnost, gnoste, knast
Etymology
From Old English *gn?st, from Proto-Germanic *gahnaistô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?nast/, /?n??st/
Noun
gnast
- spark (small fire)
- ash (burnt-out lit matter)
Descendants
- English: gnast
References
- “gn?st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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