gestr
See also: gestr.
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Norse *ᚷᚨᛊᛏᛁᛉ (*gastiʀ) (attested in several name compounds), from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, whence come also Old English ġiest, Old High German gast. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis.
Noun
[edit]gestr m (genitive gests, plural gestir)
Declension
[edit] Declension of gestr (strong i-stem, s-genitive)
Descendants
[edit]- 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
References
[edit]- “gestr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Categories:
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Norse
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Norse
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse nouns
- Old Norse masculine nouns
- Old Norse masculine i-stem nouns