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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[1], 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)
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