Etymograph

English

hoast

Hoast comes from Old Norse hósti ‘a cough’.

  1. Old Norsec. 800–1350hósti‘a cough’
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500*hostreconstructed
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1932hoast

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Norsec. 800–1350hósti‘a cough’
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500*hostreconstructed
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1932hoast

Earliest quotation: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair): “in the winter time, right in the middle of…”

Linked words

through Middle English *host

host, 1 more

Another origin of hoast

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*hwōstāną‘to cough’reconstructed
  2. Old Norsec. 800–1350hósta‘to cough’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500*hostenreconstructed
  4. Englishtodayhoast

Today it means

noun A cough.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old Norse hósti / hoast

Shirt and support for this word