Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/gʰóstis

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 This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European

Etymology

Possibly from *gʰes- (“to eat”) +‎ *-tis (abstract or action suffix). Compare Sanskrit घसति (ghásati), Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬵 (gah, “to eat, to gorge”).

Noun

*gʰóstis m[1][2][3]

  1. stranger, host[4]
  2. guest
  3. enemy

Inflection

Athematic, proterokinetic
singular
nominative *gʰóstis
genitive *gʰostéys
singular dual plural
nominative *gʰóstis *gʰóstih₁(e) *gʰósteyes
vocative *gʰósti *gʰóstih₁(e) *gʰósteyes
accusative *gʰóstim *gʰóstih₁(e) *gʰóstims
genitive *gʰostéys *? *gʰostéyoHom
ablative *gʰostéys *? *gʰostímos
dative *gʰostéyey *? *gʰostímos
locative *gʰostéy, *gʰostḗy *? *gʰostísu
instrumental *gʰostíh₁ *? *gʰostímis

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  3. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  4. ^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 269
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