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Tamas Ferencz Feb 14, 2013 (15:16)

This is off, but I'd like to share this excellent article from my favourite etymology blog (and by favourite I mean 'only' :). Perhaps it and Dr Liberman's other posts inspire some tasty neologisms...


http://blog.oup.com/2013/02/guest-host-word-origin-etymology/
'Guests' and 'hosts' | OUPblog
By Anatoly Liberman The questions people ask about word origins usually concern slang, family names, and idioms. I cannot remember being ever asked about the etymology of house, fox, or sun. These are...