ghaist

== English == === Noun === ghaist (plural ghaists) (dialectal) ghost === Anagrams === Tagish == Scots == === Alternative forms === gaist, gaste, guest, gast (obsolete) === Etymology === Inherited from Middle Scots ghost, gast, from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst, gǣst, from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡe(ː)st/ (Berwickshire) IPA(key): /ɡɑst/ === Noun === ghaist (plural ghaists) ghost, apparition (archaic, by extension) sickly, thin person ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “ghaist”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC. “ghaist”, in Essential Scots-English Dictionary, Edinburgh University Press, 2005, →ISBN Eagle, Andy, editor (2026), “ghaist”, in The Online Scots Dictionary‎[3]