Re: Back and catching up!

Pablo Flores wrote:

> I guess that's the origin of "hostile",
> which must have entered English from a different language (I meant, not
> by the normal PIE > Germanic > English derivation).
"Hostile" is straight from Latin, in fact.

But there is a proper English cognate for "host", namely "guest".
It's actually a borrowing from Old Norse: if the fully native word
had survived it would have been pronounced [dZest].)

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)