ghosti-s

    ghosti-s

    English meaning: stranger; guest

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Fremder, Gast”

    Note: Root ghosti-s : stranger; guest, derived from Root ghō̆ s- : to eat

    Material: Lat. hostis m. f. “ a stranger; but esp. an enemy, foe, opponent (aLat.), fiend “ (in addition hospes, -pitis “ a host, hostess; a guest; a guest-friend, friend; a stranger; used also like adj., foreign “, päl. hospus “ guest’s friend “ from *hosti-pot-s “ master of the guest “); It is a compound of Root ghosti-s : stranger; guest + Root poti-s : owner, host, master, husband : Gk. kor. ξένFος “foreigner” : O.Bulg. gospodь “master” : päl. hospus “ guest’s friend “. Goth. gasts, O.Ice. gestr (Run. -gastik) “guest”, O.H.G. O.S. gast, O.E. giest “ stranger, guest”; O.Bulg. gostь “guest” (borrowing from Gmc. according to Solmsen Unt. 203); to gostь probably also O.Bulg. gospodь “master, mister” etc. as Kurzung from gostьpot-. Maybe Alb. gosti “feast, party” Slavic loanword. Barely credible is the apposition from Gk. Att. ξένος, Ion. ξεῖνος, kor. ξένFος “foreigner, stranger, guest’s friend “ due to a present *ghs-enu̯-ō, lengthened grade of Alb. (h)uai, Gheg (h)uj “ strange “ (from*ghsēn-? s. Jokl IF. 37, 93); quite incredible Schwyzer Gk. I 329; about neuPhryg. ξευνε vocative (*ghs-enu̯e?) s. v. Blumenthal Gl. 20, 288.

    References: WP. I 640, WH. I 660 f., 662 f.