gæsthus
Old English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom gæst (“guest”) + hūs (“house”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgæsthūs n (nominative plural gæsthūs)
Declension
editDeclension of gæsthūs (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.