*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 89

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 02broadNO SINGLE PIN

Proto-Germanic prehistory

Germanic-speaking northern Europe

guest DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

Germanic *gasti- / *gastiz preserves guest and stranger senses across Germanic reflexes, forming the inherited branch behind Old and Middle English guest.

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

NO YEAR HAS BEEN INVENTED.

The Germanic branch is directly cited, but the sources do not delimit one numeric interval or point location for the reconstructed speech-community stage.

DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

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

  1. supports

    Guest — Word History

    Traces English guest through Germanic *gasti- and lists Frisian, Saxon, High German, Norse, and Gothic reflexes with guest or stranger senses.

    Noun Etymology, Germanic reflex listAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. supports

    Indo-European Lexicon: ghosti-s

    Catalogs the guest and stranger reflexes across West, North, and East Germanic, supporting the distributed branch without a single map point.

    Pokorny ghosti-s; Germanic reflex sectionsAUDIT SOURCE ↗