gastcyning

From gāst (“spirit”) +‎ cyning (“king”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːst.ky.ninɡ/, [ˈɡɑːst.ky.niŋɡ]

gāstcyning m

1. (poetic) spirit-king; God
   • (Can we date this quote?), Genesis A, lines 2883-2884:

     siððan wit ǣrende uncer twēga / gāstcyninge āgifen habbað

     after we two have given the message to the spirit-king

Strong a-stem:

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gást-cyning”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.