IPA(key): /<span class="searchmatch">ɡnɑːst</span>/ *<span class="searchmatch">gnāst</span> m spark Strong a-stem: fȳrgnāst Middle <span class="searchmatch">English</span>: <span class="searchmatch">gnast</span>, gnost, gnoste, knast <span class="searchmatch">English</span>: <span class="searchmatch">gnast</span> (obsolete) ⇒? <span class="searchmatch">English</span>: snaste, snast...
Proto-West Germanic: *gahnaistō <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> <span class="searchmatch">English</span>: *<span class="searchmatch">gnāst</span> Middle <span class="searchmatch">English</span>: <span class="searchmatch">gnast</span>, gnost, gnoste, knast <span class="searchmatch">English</span>: <span class="searchmatch">gnast</span> (obsolete) ⇒? <span class="searchmatch">English</span>: snaste, snast, snaist, snaast...
*hnaistō. *gahnaistō m spark <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> <span class="searchmatch">English</span>: *<span class="searchmatch">gnāst</span> Middle <span class="searchmatch">English</span>: <span class="searchmatch">gnast</span>, gnost, gnoste, knast <span class="searchmatch">English</span>: <span class="searchmatch">gnast</span> (obsolete) ⇒? <span class="searchmatch">English</span>: snaste, snast, snaist, snaast...
thus from earlier *knětiti, connected to <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> Prussian knaistis (“fuse (for burning)”), <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> <span class="searchmatch">English</span> *<span class="searchmatch">gnāst</span> (“spark”) (from Proto-Germanic *ga- + Proto-Germanic...