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German
Etymology
From Gast (“guest”) + frei (“free”) (literally). The word is documented since the 16th century.[1][2] The adjective frei has kept its archaic meaning of "generous" and thus gastfrei literally means "generous towards guests, generous with accommodation, hospitality".[2]
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- Hyphenation: gast‧frei
Adjective
gastfrei (strong nominative masculine singular gastfreier, comparative gastfreier, superlative am gastfreiesten or am gastfreisten)
- hospitable
- eine gastfreie Aufnahme / Familie (a hospitable reception / family), ein gastfreies Haus führen (to keep a hospitable house), gastfrei aufgenommen werden (to be given a hospitable reception)
- 1809-1813 , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Aus meinem Leben. Dichtung und Wahrheit , in 1982, Erich Trunz (ed.), Goethes Werke, vol. 9: Autobiographische Schriften I (C. H. Beck, Munich), p. 465:
Diesseits und jenseits des Rheins, in Hagenau, Fort Louis, Philippsburg, der Ortenau, fand ich die Personen zerstreut, die ich in Sesenheim vereinigt gesehn, jeden bei sich, als freundlichen Wirt, gastfrei und so gern Küche und Keller als Gärten und Weinberge, ja die ganze Gegend aufschließend.- On this side and on the other side of the Rhine, in Hagenau, Fort Louis, Philippsburg, of the Ortenau , I found people scattered that I seen united in Sesenheim, at one with themselves, as friendly host, hospitable and so willingly opening up kitchen and cellar as well as gardens and vineyards, nay the whole region.
- 2003 July 10, Tahar Ben Jelloun (translated from French by Christiane Kayser), Die Rekruten aus der Hölle, in Die Zeit, No. 29, (URL; retrieved June 16, 2015):
Andere flohen aus dem libanesischen Bürgerkrieg und fanden ebenfalls in Marokko ein gastfreies Land, das keinen Anstoß an ihren Praktiken nimmt.- Others fled the Lebanese civil war and found in Morocco a hospitable country as well, that takes no umbrage at their practices.
- 2009 May 27, Yehudith Shapiro and Robert Schlickewitz, „Die jemenitischen Juden“ von Sigmund Feist (1925), in haGalil.com - Jüdisches Leben online, (URL; retrieved June 16, 2015):
Ihre Häuser waren sehr nett, sie selbst sehr gastfrei.- Their houses were very nice, they themselves very hospitable.
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