Masculine
Concepts
customer
hotel guest
visitor’s arrival
privileged guest
Synonyms
meine Dame
mein Herr
Eingeladener
Geburtstagsgast
Gastfreund
Eingeladene
Gastfreundin
Gaſt
Ehrenmitglied
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
[ɡast]
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German gast, from Old High German gast, from Proto-West Germanic *gasti, from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis. Germanic cognates include Dutch gast, English guest, Old Norse gestr (whence Swedish gäst, Danish gæst, Norwegian Nynorsk gjest, Norwegian Bokmål gjest, Icelandic gestur), and Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts). Indo-European cognates include Latin hostis (whence Italian oste, Spanish hoste/hueste, and French ost) and Proto-Slavic *gostь (whence Russian гость (gostʹ), Polish gość, and Serbo-Croatian gȏst).
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