guest

Guest ( plural : guests) generally refers to a visitor invited to stay . Originally the word " foreigner " meant , like the etymologically related terms in other Germanic languages ( Old High German / Middle High German / Old Saxon gast , Gothic gasts , Old Norse gestr , Old English giest and Old Frisian jest ), in Slavic ( Church Slavonic gostĭ ) and in Romance languages ( Latin hostis, hospes ). While on the one hand hospitality was to be granted to the stranger ( hospitality ), on the other hand it was important to be careful, because he could harbor hostile intentions. The grammatically masculine word guest designates a person regardless of their gender: "Every guest is welcome." In general, a guest only stays with the host for a limited time.

A guest today is a person who accommodates, entertains or is transported free of charge or for a fee (see Passenger ). In the hospitality industry , typical accommodation companies are inns , hostels , hotels and boarding houses . Visitors from other restaurants are also called guests .

Invited, mostly friendly artists are introduced as guests at performances and concerts . In films and fictional works, a guest appearance or English cameo describes the surprising, brief appearance of a well-known person.

A guest friend is colloquially a friend at another place of residence with whom a person (regularly) comes to visit or while traveling. A hospitality network is a network of private individuals who agree to take in travelers for a limited period of time without payment.

Guest

The movied form guest for a female guest is unusual, but it is documented in the Early New High German dictionary from 1365 in the meaning of "foreign, foreign" in the spellings stinn and göstin (1582, 1624). The German legal dictionary names a document from the 15th century for gestin . The German dictionary of the brothers Grimm of 1878 leads Gästin as "female guest, little used" (also Engelin and Geistin be performed).

In the current Duden , Gästin is only briefly listed as the “female form of guest”. From 2007 to 2018, guest was used as a keyword by the host Gerburg Jahnke in the cabaret show Ladies Night .