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In Italian “ospite” means both “host” and “guest” (www.foxyhole.io)
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In Italian “ospite” means both “host” and “guest”
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[–] hakase@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

This mirrors its Proto-Indo-European root *ghos- (also the ancestor of both "host" and "guest" through Romance and Germanic respectively), which we think originally meant a reciprocal relationship - "those who were bound by hospitality to each other".

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

In ancient Greek there was Xenia, which is the concept of hospitality and the rules or norms for the hosts and guests. The word Xenia has the same PIE root, as well.