Middle English ost / host continued into modern host with loss of the unstressed variant and stabilization of initial h.
MEANING
The reversible host-or-guest role narrowed in English toward the person receiving others, then expanded into event, media, biological, and computing roles.
No reviewed descendants currently reuse this node. Absence describes the graph, not the entire history of the form.
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TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
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This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
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REVIEWED EDGES
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DEEPEST PATH
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MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
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No downstream edge has cleared review for this node. This is a graph-coverage statement, not a claim that the historical form produced nothing.
“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
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RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
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SOURCE-REPORTEDlexicographic first useestablished
English lexicographic first-use record for host in the hospitality sense
Source-reported first-use period for the hospitality noun; no underlying manuscript witness was directly inspected.