gość

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See also: gósć, gòsc, and gôsc

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gȍstь. First attested in the end of the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ɡɔɕt͡ɕʲ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ɡɔɕt͡ɕʲ/

Noun

gość m pers (female equivalent gościa, related adjective gościnny or gościowy)

  1. (attested in Lesser Poland) newcomer, foreigner, nonpermanent resident, noncitizen
    • 1939 , Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki, Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego , pages 104, 22:
      Y wszedl Ysrahel w Egipt, a Yakub gosczem bil w szemy Kam (Jacob accola fuit in terra Cham)
  2. (attested in Greater Poland) person living in a town far from a courthouse; person who does not have city rights in a given city
    • 1887, 1889 , Józef Lekszycki, editor, Die ältesten großpolnischen Grodbücher, volume I, number 2059, Poznań:
      Kedi szø tamo... przigeli do Kzøsza, tedi goscze panu Himcze dauali wini
      ce dawali winy]
  3. (attested in Greater Poland) guest (one staying in the house of another)
    • 1885-2024 , Jan Baudouina de Courtenay, Jan Karłowicz, Antoni Adam Kryńskiego, Malinowski Lucjan, editors, Prace Filologiczne, volume IV, page 594:
      Przymvyą goscza thego, syna boga zywego
    • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 61v:
      Hospes eyn wirt oder eyn gast gospodarz vel goscz
  4. (law) litigant, plaintiff; defendant
    • , Wokabularz łacińsko-polski, page 528:
      Dientulus goszcz vel powod

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Polish: gość
  • Silesian: gość

References

Polish

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔɕt͡ɕ
  • Syllabification: gość

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish gość. Doublet of host.

Noun

gość m pers

  1. guest (recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another)
    Coordinate term: gospodarz
  2. guest (invited visitor)
    Coordinate term: gospodarz
  3. guest (patron or customer in a hotel etc.)
  4. (colloquial) dude, guy (male person less known to the speaker)
  5. (obsolete) newcomer; foreigner
  6. (obsolete) novice
    Synonym: nowicjusz
  7. (Middle Polish) person who does not have city rights in a given city
  8. (Middle Polish) guest; Further details are uncertain.
    • 1564, J. Mączyński, Lexicon, page 36b:
      Receptor, Gość y Goſpodarz.
Declension
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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), gość is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 53 times in news, 3 times in essays, 21 times in fiction, and 31 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 110 times, making it the 559th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

gość

  1. second-person singular imperative of gościć

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “gość”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 134

Further reading

Silesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish gość.

Pronunciation

Noun

gość m pers

  1. guest (recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another)
  2. guest (patron or customer in a hotel etc)

Declension

Declension of gość
singular plural
nominative gość goście
genitive gościa gości
dative gościowi gościōm
accusative gościa gości
instrumental gościym gościami/gościōma
locative gościu gościach
vocative gościu goście

Derived terms

verbs
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Further reading