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appear in North and East Germanic sources (where Gothic uses ahma and Old Norse uses andi m. or önd f.), linguists reconstruct *gaistaz as stemming from pre-Germanic *ghois-t-oz ("fury, anger"). This reconstruction is supported by its connection to Sanskrit hid- ("to be angry") and héda ("anger"), and to Avestan zoizda-

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