Gest

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gest

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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GEST
m. GUEST, stranger; hospes :-- For feorme and onfangenysse gesta propter hospitalĭtātem atque susceptiōnem hospĭtum, Bd. 1, 27; S. 489, 8: Exon. 106 a; Th. 404, 30; Rä. 23, 15. Gest hine clǽnsie sylfes áþe on wiofode let a stranger clear himself with his own oath at the altar, L. Wih. 20; Th. i. 40, 19. DER. féðe-gest, inwit-, wil-.

Related words: gæst. gest

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