Gistian

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gistian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

gistian
p. ode To be a guest, be lodged in another's house:--On wrigylse fiðra þínra ic gystige (I will lodge? The Latin is exultabo), Ps. Cam. 62, 8. Líf mánfull tó gystigenne of húse on hús uita nequam hospitandi de domo in domum (it is a miserable life to go from house to house, Ecclus. 29, 24), Scint. 153, 15. [N. E. D. guest; vb. Icel. gista to pass the night at another's house.] gistian
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