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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 :)) .
_________________________ 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.