Translation
to host, to put up (a guest)
Word origin
Made inside Esperanto from gasto ('guest') and the causative suffix -ig-. Gasto itself is Germanic, a cousin of English guest and German Gast, and behind both stands Latin hostis, a stranger.
- Origin
- Esperanto derivation
- Root
- gast- + -ig-
- English cognates
- guest, host, hostile
Examples
.
They put us up for three nights.
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She likes hosting friends at her house.
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The family hosted two students from another country.
-- means to cause, and here it causes guesthood. Gasto
is a guest; is to make somebody a guest, which in practice means to
take them in, feed them and give them a bed. English needs a whole different
word, host, and then has to explain that it is unrelated to the hostility in
hostile. Esperanto derives the verb from the noun and is done. The
igi and iĝi article is the general case: --
does something to somebody else, -- has it happen to you, and
would be to become a guest, which is what the visitor does while the household
.
The family is unusually complete. Gastejo is the
guest place, an inn or a hostel; gastama is
hospitable, literally guest-loving; gastamo is hospitality; gastiganto is
the host and o the assembled guests. Every one of them is built from the
same four letters, and you can generate the lot without looking anything up.
This is not a neutral word in this language. Pasporta Servo is an
Esperanto institution: a list of speakers around the world who will put up
another speaker for a night or two, free, on the strength of the shared
language alone. It has been running since 1974 and it is the thing many people
mean when they say the movement is more than a hobby. is what those
hosts do, and the verb carries the whole idea in six letters.
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