gestur
Icelandic
/ˈcɛstʏr/
noun
Definitions
- guest
- visitor
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse gestr inherited from Proto-Norse *ᚷᚨᛊᛏᛁᛉ (guest) inherited from Proto-Germanic *gastiz (guest, stranger) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰóstis
Gloss
stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hostia Latin
- hostilitas, hostlitatem Latin
- *gʰóstis Proto-Indo-European
- gjest Norwegian Bokmål
- *gastiz Proto-Germanic
- *gʰóstis Proto-Germanic
- *wistiz Proto-Germanic
- gjest Norwegian Nynorsk
- giest Old English
- ġiest Old English
- gest Middle English
- gyst Middle English
- gestr Old Norse
- gæst Danish
- *gostь Proto-Slavic
- gestgjafi Icelandic
- gueste Galician
- gast Old High German
- gestur Faroese
- Gaascht Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- Éieregaascht Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 Gothic
- *gast Old Dutch
- *gostiyos Proto-Celtic
- *gozdis Proto-Celtic
- gast Old Saxon
- gæster Old Swedish
- *hostis Proto-Italic
- *ᚷᚨᛊᛏᛁᛉ Proto-Norse
- ᚺᛚᛖᚹᚨᚷᚨᛊᛏᛁᛉ Proto-Norse
- ᚾᚨᚢᛞᛁᚷᚨᛊᛏᛁᛉ Proto-Norse