geason
/ˈɡiːzən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This white falcon rare and gaison, This bird shineth so bright."
- "[…] ye shal finde many other word to rime with him, bycause such terminations are not geazon […]"
- "Such as this Age, in which all good is geason, […]"
- "Lectorius, friends are geason now-a-days, / And grow to fume before they taste the fire."
Etymology
From Middle English geson, gesene (“rare, scarce”), from Old English gǣsne (“deprived of, wanting, destitute, barren, sterile, dead”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaisnī (“barren, poor”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to be gaping, yawn”). Cognate with Old High German geisini, keisini (“lack”), a noun, and more remotely with North Frisian gast (“barren”), Low German güst (“barren”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: geson, gǣsne, *gaisnī, *ǵʰeh₂-
Usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
more geason (comparative)
most geason (superlative)
geazon (alternative)
gaison (alternative)
gessen (alternative)