gaast

== Old English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡɑːst/ === Noun === gaast m (Northumbrian) alternative form of gāst == Yola == === Alternative forms === gast === Etymology === From Middle English gast, from Old English gāst, from Proto-West Germanic *gaist. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡaːst/ === Noun === gaast ghost, spirit 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