gæsthus
Appearance
Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From gæst (“guest”) + hūs (“house”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gæsthūs n (nominative plural gæsthūs)
Declension
[edit]Strong a-stem:
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | gæsthūs | gæsthūs |
accusative | gæsthūs | gæsthūs |
genitive | gæsthūses | gæsthūsa |
dative | gæsthūse | gæsthūsum |
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.