hospitalhus

Old High German

Etymology

From Late Latin hospitāle +‎ hūs (“house”).

Noun

hospitalhūs n

1. hospital

Declension

Declension of hospitalhūs (neuter a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	hospitalhūs	hospitalhūs
accusative	hospitalhūs	hospitalhūs
genitive	hospitalhūses	hospitalhūso
dative	hospitalhūse	hospitalhūsum
instrumental	hospitalhūsu	—

Descendants

• ⇒ Middle High German: spitāl, hospitāl
  • Central Franconian: Spidol
    • Hunsrik: Spitaal
    • Luxembourgish: Spidol
  • German: Spital, Hospital (literary; dated)
    • → Polish: szpital, śpital (Middle Polish)
      • → Belarusian: шпіта́ль (špitálʹ)
      • → Kashubian: szpëtôl (through Middle Polish)
      • → Ukrainian: шпиталь (špytalʹ)
    • → Romanian: spital, șpital — regional, Transylvania, ospital
    • → Yiddish: שפּיטאָל (shpitol)

References

• "hospitalhūs" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)