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geest.

ghost, spirit, immaterial being

5 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɣeːst/

  1. ghost, spirit, immaterial being

    masculine
    Het oude kasteel wordt bewoond door spoken en geesten.

  2. mind, mental consciousness

    masculine
    Hij had een verwarde geest en kon zich moeilijk concentreren.

  3. mindset, mentality

    masculine
    Het is in de geest van deze tijd om vooral te genieten van het leven.

  4. life force, vital energy

    masculine

  5. spirit, gas, distillate, essence

    masculine
    In alchemie wordt de term geest gebruikt om het vluchtige deel van een stof aan te duiden.
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch gêest, from Old Dutch gēst, from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeysd-, *ǵʰisd- (“anger, agitation”). Cognates Cognate with German Geist, West Frisian geast, English ghost, Swedish gast.

noun/ɣeːst/

  1. heath, heathland

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch geest, from Old Dutch *gēst, a nominalization of an adjective that meant “dry, infertile”, a derivation of Proto-Germanic *gais- (“infertile”), a root probably meaning "cracking, breaking, gaping;" see *gīnan. See also German gähnen. Cognate to West Frisian gaast, geast (as in the Dutch/Frisian place name Gaasterland) and German Geest (which is borrowed from Low German). Other derivations of *gais- are: Old English gæsne (“infertility, poverty”), Old French gast (“waste”) and Icelandic gisinn (“dry”).

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