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guest-friendship

noun

Etymology

From guest + friendship. Compare Dutch gastvriendschap, German Gastfreundschaft.

  1. inherited from *friundskapi✻
  2. inherited from frēondsċiepe
  3. inherited from frendshipe
  4. compounded as guest-friendship — “guest + friendship”

Definitions

  1. Friendship shown to guests

    Friendship shown to guests; hospitality.

    • The great significance of guest friendship and gift-exchange in the Celto-Germanic world bears witness to a deeply-founded desire to enter into positive relations with other groups.
    • Germanic cultural traditions of guest-friendship and hospitality, immortalised in the heroic literature of Beowulf (610ff) (Cat. 2003, 116, 397; von Uslar, 1934: Abb 2, 7-8).

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