гость

• (Glagolitic): ⰳⱁⱄⱅⱐ (gostĭ)

From Proto-Slavic *gostь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gástis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis.

гость • (gostĭ) m

1. guest

From Proto-Slavic *gȍstь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gástis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis.

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔstɪ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔstʲɪ/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔːstʲ/
• Hyphenation: го‧сть

гость (gostĭ) m

1. guest
2. stranger, foreigner
3. (foreign) merchant

• Belarusian: госць (hoscʹ)
• Russian: гость (gostʹ)
• Carpathian Rusyn: гость (hostʹ)
• Ukrainian: гість (histʹ)

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “гость”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 569

From Old East Slavic гость (gostĭ), from Proto-Slavic *gostь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gástis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis. Cognate with English guest and host.

• IPA^(key): [ɡosʲtʲ]

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гость • (gostʹ) m anim (genitive го́стя, nominative plural го́сти, genitive plural госте́й, feminine го́стья, relational adjective гостево́й or гости́ный)

1. guest, visitor

   идти́ в го́сти ― idtí v gósti ― to go visiting

   быть в гостя́х у кого́-либо ― bytʹ v gostjáx u kovó-libo ― to be a guest of someone

2. (obsolete) merchant, especially one that trades overseas.

May refer to a guest of either gender, but is always a masculine noun; any adjectives modifying it must be masculine, as must any pronouns referring back to it.

• гости́ная (gostínaja)
• гости́ть (gostítʹ)
• гости́ница (gostínica)

• го́стья (góstʹja)

• → Komi-Zyrian: гӧсть (gösť)

• в гостя́х хорошо́, а до́ма лу́чше (v gostjáx xorošó, a dóma lúčše)