Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> You keep with the unambiguity (I remember having troubles with =
this
> ambiguity when I was younger, and no way to disambiguate it -I was to s=
hy to
> ask for an explanation-). The ambiguity is so important that I remember=
that
> I used to think that "h=F4te" meant only "guest". I 'discovered' the me=
aning
> "host" very much later (in a book, I think. I spent one day to understa=
nd
> the sentence!).
Are you saying that ho^te is rarely used to mean "host"? If so, what is
the normal word for "host"? (Also, if that's what you mean, it's quite
interesting - ho^te (Old French hoste) is the origin of our "host")
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