Etymology

kast

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Today it means: A type of traditional cupboard produced by Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries Full definition →

Dutch kast ← Middle Dutch caste ← Old Dutch *casto
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kast · noun1

  1. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*kastō
  2. Old Dutch · derived from*casto“chest, reservoir”
  3. Middle Dutch · derived fromcaste“chest”
  4. Dutch · derived fromkast
  5. English todaykast

From Dutch kast, from Middle Dutch caste (“chest”), from Old Dutch *casto (“chest, reservoir”), from Proto-West Germanic *kastō.

Kast · proper noun2

* As a German surname, from Kast, a spelling variant of Karst, the dropping of the r being common in northern dialects, from the noun Karst (“hoe, mattock”). * As an Alemannic German surname, from the medieval personal name Arbogast. * See also the etymology at Gast.

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