英语词汇“Indo-European root: ghos-ti-”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

Indo-European root: ghos-ti-

释义

‌‌ghos-ti-
Stranger, guest, host; properly "someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality."

Basic form *ghos-ti‑.
1. 1. guest, from Old Norse gestr, guest;
  2. Gastarbeiter, from Old High German gast, guest. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic *gastiz.
2. host², hostile, from Latin hostis, enemy (< "stranger").
Compound *ghos-pot‑, *ghos-po(d)‑, "guest-master," one who symbolizes the relationship of reciprocal obligation (*pot‑, master; see poti-). hospice, hospitable, hospital, hospitality, host¹, hostage, hostel, hostler, from Latin hospes (stem hospit‑), host, guest, stranger.
Suffixed zero-grade form *ghs-en-wo‑. xenia, xeno-, xenon; axenic, euxenite, pyroxene, from Greek xenos, guest, host, stranger.

[Pokorny ghosti-s 453.]

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