Gast

• As a German surname, from Gast (“guest”) (see below).
• As an Alemannic German surname, shortened from the personal Germanic names Arbogast and Gastolf (compare German Gasthof).
• As a French surname, from Old French gast (“wasteland”).

Gast (plural Gasts)

1. A surname.

• ATGs, GATS, GTAs, TAGs, gats, stag, tags

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).

• IPA^(key): [ɡast]

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Gast m (strong, genitive Gastes or Gasts, plural Gäste, feminine (uncommon) Gästin or Gastin)

1. guest

Gast is one of the few German masculine nouns referring to human beings that has no common feminine equivalent: Gast m is used for both male and female guests. However, the old feminine form Gästin has seen some recent use to avoid Gast in some contexts.

• “Gast” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Gast” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Gast” in Duden online
• Gast on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Gast”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891