English

ghostie

From ghost + -ie.

Formed from ghost + -ie

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysd-

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Proto-Germanic *gaistaz ‘terror’

Proto-West Germanic *gaist ‘ghost’

Old English gāst ‘breath’

Middle English gost ‘a spiritual being’

English ghost

Today it means

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