*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 88

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 01uncertainNO SINGLE PIN

Proto-Indo-European prehistory

Reconstructed Indo-European speech communities

guest DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

The reconstructed *ghos-ti- family denotes an outsider, stranger, guest, or host under reciprocal duties. Merriam-Webster cautions that the etymon is limited to three western Indo-European branches.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
uncertain
TIME PRECISION
unresolved
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
WITHHELD
CLAIM CITATIONS
2
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

NO YEAR HAS BEEN INVENTED.

The reconstruction is directly supported, but no numeric prehistoric interval or single homeland point is inferred from the lexical comparison.

DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. supports

    Guest — Word History

    Reconstructs the dialectal Indo-European outsider or guest etymon and cautions that its direct evidence is limited to three western branches.

    Noun Etymology, root noteAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. supports

    Indo-European Root ghos-ti-

    Defines the reconstructed reciprocal outsider as stranger, guest, or host and connects Germanic guest with Latin hostis and hospes descendants.

    Root ghos-ti-, heading and basic formAUDIT SOURCE ↗