The spelling of the term "wast eager" is an archaic form of the phrase "was eager." The term reflects a grammatical construction that was commonly used in Old English, where the past tense of the verb "to be" was combined with other verbs to indicate past actions. In this case, "wast" is the second-person singular past tense of "to be," while "eager" is the adjective describing the subject of the sentence. The phonetic transcription of "wast eager" is /wɑːst ˈiːɡə(r)/.