hosp
See also: Hosp.
English edit
Noun edit
hosp
- Abbreviation of hospital.
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English hosp (“reproach, insult, contumely, blasphemy”).
Noun edit
hosp (plural hosps)
- detraction, blasphemy, to hold in derision, vilify
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *hosp, *husp (“derision, mockery”), of obscure origin. Likely an alteration of Proto-West Germanic *hosk, *husk (“derision, mockery”), from Proto-Germanic *huskaz, *huską (“mockery”), from Proto-Indo-European *kūd- (“to shout, be naughty, mock”). More at Old English husċ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hosp m
Declension edit
Declension of hosp (strong a-stem)
Derived terms edit
- hospcwide m (“insulting speech”)
- hospettan (“to ridicule”)
- hosplīċ
- hospsprǣċ f (“jeer, taunt”)
- hospul (“contemptible”)
- hospword n (“abusive language, contemptuous expression”)
- hyspan
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Middle English: hosp
References edit
- John R. Clark Hall (1916), “hosp”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “hosp”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Romansch edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
hosp m (plural hosps)
Synonyms edit
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) giast
Vilamovian edit
Noun edit
hosp f (plural hospa)