[ostoir] (1199-1202)

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[ostoir] (1199-1202)

[ gdw]

[ FEW: 4,500a hostis; Gdf: 5,656c osteor /5,659b ostoier 2; GdfC: ; TL: 6,1392 ostoiier 2; DEAF:  ost (ostoieor); DMF:  ostoyer 2; TLF: ; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: ]
ostoir,  hostoir  

The word is rare in French: Godefroy provides one attestation from Wace’s Roman de Rou ( for osteor, glossed ‘combattant, guerrier, militaire’) and another from Froissart’s Cronicle (sub ostoier 2, glossed ‘soldat’). The DMF and T/L do not add any further attestations. Although the word is not found in medieval English, the OED has the comparable entry hoster n.2, glossed as ‘one who serves in a host of army’, with an earliest attestation of 1892.

Alternatively – and without further context – the word may also be interpreted as a variant of the formally similar but semantically unrelated oster2 (‘hosteler, landlord of an inn’), which is equally rare (and just as problematic to gloss).

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1mil.occupationsoldier, one who serves in the army (?)
( 1199-1202 )  tempore quo Gaufridus le hostoir habuit custodiam terre  304
ostage#1  ost#1  osteier 
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