gestr

See also: gestr.

Old Norse

Etymology

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

gestr m (genitive gests, plural gestir)

guest

Declension

Declension of gestr (strong i-stem, s-genitive)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gestr	gestrinn	gestir	gestirnir
accusative	gest	gestinn	gesti	gestina
dative	gest	gestinum	gestum	gestunum
genitive	gests	gestsins	gesta	gestanna

Descendants

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

References

“gestr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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