n.
Gaw pl. castes; Pe caste; Cl cast; WA cast, pl. castis, kastis
‘throwing, stroke; trick; ?fastening; (pl.) speech, utterances, glance, contrivance; purpose' (Modern English cast)
PGmc Ancestor
*kas(a)t-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
kast ‘throw, turn’
(ONP kast (sb.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Far kast, Icel kast, Norw kast
OE Cognate
Phonological and morphological markers
absence of palatalization of */k/
Summary category
A1
Widespread from early ME.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Gaw 1295, 2298, 2376 etc.; Pe 1163; Cl 768, 1070; WA 1302, 1395, 1764 etc.
Gaw 1295 castes emended by GDS and CA to costes ‘manners, behaviour’, and see also McGillivray 1295n (see cost). For kast at WA 2484, the A MS reads <ame>. The WA occurrences include stane cast (3614), generally printed as one word.