DERIVATION OF THE WORD GHOST.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, 26 March 1842, Page 12

DERIVATION OF THE WORD GHOST.

Ghost — the Anglo-Saxon word for wind, or breath. Our word "gust** — as gust of wind — is the Bame / word without the " h." We also say, a " breath of wind." What is a ghost, then ? Put, your hand out of the window and you will feel it, if the " wind "is blowing. To v give up the /'ghost" is to give up the breath that is in one — that is, to cease to breathe. " Psyche," the Greek word, which we translate by the Anglo-Saxon word "sawl," now spelled soul, signifies wind or breath, from " psycho," to blow or breathe. And the Anglo-Saxon "sawl" (now soul) signifies life. The word "animus,", from the Greek "anemos," also means wind, or breath. Animals, therefore, are "things which breathe." — Philosophic Nuts, by Johnson.

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