gæsthus
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Old English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From gæst (“guest”) + hūs (“house”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gæsthūs n (nominative plural gæsthūs)
Declension[edit]
Declension of gæsthus (strong a-stem)
Descendants[edit]
- Middle English: gest hous (partly from Old Norse)
- English: guesthouse
References[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gæsthús”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.