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Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
gaast m
- (Northumbrian) Alternative form of gāst
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English gaast, from Old English gāst, from Proto-West Germanic *gaist.
Pronunciation
Noun
gaast
- ghost sprite
- Synonym: loughraan
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 40