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gheis- "to be agitated, frightened" suggests that the Germanic word originally referred to frightening (cf. English ghastly) apparitions or ghosts, and may also have carried the connotation of "ecstatic agitation, furor" related to the cult of Germanic Mercury.As the translation of biblical Latin spiritus (Greek ????u?) "spirit, breath" the Germanic word acquires a Christian

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