Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/gastiz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Possibly attested as -gasti- (in Harigasti-, 450–350 BCE, Negau), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest”). Cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic *gastis, Latin hostis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣɑs.tiz/

*gastiz m

1. stranger, guest

• *gastihūsą
• *Harjagastiz

• Proto-West Germanic: *gasti
  • Old English: ġiest
  • Old Frisian: jest
  • Old Saxon: gast
    • Middle Low German: gast
      • Westphalian:

        Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Gast

        Sauerländisch: Gast

        Westmünsterländisch: Gast

      • Plautdietsch: Gaust
      • → Saterland Frisian: Gast
      • → West Frisian: gast
  • Old Dutch: *gast
    • Middle Dutch: gast
      • Dutch: gast
        • Afrikaans: gas
  • Old High German: gast
    • Middle High German: gast
      • Bavarian: Gåst
      • German: Gast
        • → Esperanto: gasto
      • Luxembourgish: Gaascht
      • Yiddish: גאַסט (gast)
• Proto-Norse: *ᚷᚨᛊᛏᛁᛉ (*gastiʀ) (attested in several personal names)
  • Old Norse: gestr
    • Icelandic: gestur
    • Faroese: gestur
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: gjest
    • Norwegian Bokmål: gjest
    • Old Swedish: gæster
      • Swedish: gäst
    • Old Danish: gæst
      • Danish: gæst
    • → Middle English: gest, geste, gist, geast, gyst
      • English: guest
      • Scots: guest
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts)