ghostly

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(Anglais)

Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.
Spooky; frightening.
(archaic) Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.

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/ˈɡoʊstli/

Hérité de moyen anglais

Hérité de ancien anglais

Appartenant à écossais

Appartenant à frison occidental

Appartenant à néerlandais

Appartenant à allemand

Appartenant à danois

In summary

From Middle English gostly, gastlich, from Old English gāstlīċ (“spiritual, holy, clerical (not lay), ghastly, ghostly, spectral”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaistalīk (“spiritual”), equivalent to ghost + -ly. Cognate with Scots ghaistly, gaistly (“spiritual, ghastly, terrifying”), West Frisian geastlik (“spiritual, clerical, religious”), Dutch geestelijk (“spiritual, clerical, ecclesiastical”), German geistlich (“spiritual, sacred, religious”), Danish geistlig (“ecclesiastical, clerical”).