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-gast is a word component in Slavic or Frisian place names and in personal names.
Germanic
In the 4th century two Roman army masters of Germanic origin bore the names Baudogast and Arbogast , Anagast in the 5th century.
The meaning of -gast is mostly derived from Gothic gasts , Old High German gast Fremder .
Slavic
Personal names
In the 6th century were called leader of the proto Slavic musicians Kelagast and Pera guest, a leader frühslawischer Ardagast . The names could be of Germanic origin, taken from the Goths who previously ruled there .
Gostomysl ( Goztomuizl ) was a leader of the Abodrites in Mecklenburg in the 9th century.
Place names
In the areas of Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland populated by the Western Slavs, there are some place names with the final syllable -gast .
- Audigast
- Bather
- Dobergast
- Gadegast
- Leaf guest
- Love guest
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Radegast
- Radegast , Anhalt
- Radegast , Lüneburg district
- Radegast , Northwest Mecklenburg
- Radegast , Rostock district
- Radegast ( Radhošť ), mountain in Moravia
- Radegast , district of Bratislava , Slovakia
- Radegast (Radogoszcz), district of Lodz , Poland
- Sallgast
- Marktschorgast ( Schorgast ) in Upper Franconia
- Tugast ( Tuhošť ), castle and mountain in Bohemia
- Velgast near Stralsund
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Wolgast
- Wolgast , Western Pomerania
- Wolgast ( Wołogoszcz ), Lubusz Voivodeship (formerly Neumark ), Poland
Frisian
In East Frisian place names, -gast comes from the Old Frisian word gâst for geest . Place names in -gast or, especially in Germanized forms of names, in -gaste originally refer mostly to districts or old fields located on higher Geest ridges.
Examples:
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ " Germania Slavica "
- ↑ a b Walter Kaestner, Low German-Slavic Interferences ; in: Handbook for Low German Linguistics and Literature Studies , ed. by Gerhard Cordes and Dieter Möhn, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-503-01645-7 , pp. 678-729; P. 709 = Section 3.1.2.3
- ↑ Arend Remmers , From Aaltukerei to Zwischenmooren , Leer 2004