Sidenote: I like the O -> UE thing that happens in Spanish. I've noticed it, but didn't know how far it went.
https://www.reddit.com/user/TywinDeVillena/ says:
"Host" is a word that also means army, and it can be found in other languages like the Spanish word "hueste" with the characteristic diphthongation o -> ue (similar to fortem -> fuerte, or mortem -> muerte).
In both cases, the word comes from the Latin word "hostis", meaning "enemy army" or "enemy" or "army". From this etym you can find the English word "hostile" and "hostility".
In the case of the English "host", we have a convergent evolution of words with a different provenance. "Host" in the hospitality sense comes from the Latin word "hospes, hospitis", whereas "host" as army comes from "hostis", but both evolved into the same word.
Another interesting article: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1i58mtk/why_were_medieval_armies_so_small_compared_to/
Ques was: Why were super ancient armies 50,000 mean, but later in medieval Europe, it was 10,000 men or less?
Answ by https://www.reddit.com/user/Steelcan909/:
the ability of the state to marshal its resources and in the militarization of society as a whole.
The medieval world was filled with states that were just simply not able to muster the same amount of men under arms because of the constraints that medieval armies and societies faced compared to Roman, Hellenistic, and other Classical world states because they lacked the administrative capacity, the levels of urbanization, a highly militarized population to draw soldiers from, and the coercive political systems that the states of Antiquity enjoyed. However this level of uneven army size is mostly applicable to western Medieval Europe.
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