gest
Middle English
/ɡɛst/
noun
Definitions
- A guest, visitor; somebody staying at another's residence.
- A customer of a hostel or inn; one that pays for accomodation.
- An unknown person; a foreigner or outsider.
- A (often threatening) male individual; a ominous person.
- (figurative) A male lover of a woman; a man in an unofficial intimate relationship with a woman.
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse gestr derived from Old English ġiest (guest) derived from Proto-Germanic *gastiz (guest, stranger), *gʰóstis.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*gʰóstis
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- guest English
- guest-friendly English
- guestfree English
- guestfriendship English
- guesthouse English
- guestish English
- guestless English
- guestlike English
- guestlist English
- guestly English
- guestmeal English
- guestwise English
- houseguest English
- nonguest English
- *gʰóstis Proto-Indo-European
- gjest Norwegian Bokmål
- *gastiz Proto-Germanic
- *gʰóstis Proto-Germanic
- *wistiz Proto-Germanic
- ゲスト Japanese
- gjest Norwegian Nynorsk
- giest Old English
- giestern Old English
- giestliþe Old English
- gystian Old English
- ġiest Old English
- gesten Middle English
- gestenen Middle English
- gestour Middle English
- gyst Middle English
- gestr Old Norse
- gæst Danish
- gestur Icelandic
- gueste Galician
- gast Old High German
- gestur Faroese
- 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 Gothic
- *gast Old Dutch
- gast Old Saxon
- gæster Old Swedish
- ges Tok Pisin
- *ᚷᚨᛊᛏᛁᛉ Proto-Norse