Re: Two different opposites (again)
From: | John Quijada <jq_ithkuil@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, May 12, 2004, 19:02 |
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
>I personally like the "hôte" ambiguity, and was considering having such an
>ambiguity omnipresent in Maggel :)) .
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Italian "ospite" has the same ambiguity, meaning both "host" and "guest."
In Spanish, the cognate "huésped" most commonly means "guest", but does
mean "host" when used in a biological sense, as in being the "host" of a
disease or virus.
--John Q.