hospitalhus
Old High German
Etymology
From Late Latin hospitāle + hūs (“house”).
Noun
hospitalhūs n
Declension
| 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
- German: Spital, Hospital (literary; dated)
- → Polish: szpital, śpital (Middle Polish)
- → Romanian: spital, șpital — regional, Transylvania, ospital
- → Yiddish: שפּיטאָל (shpitol)
References
- Köbler, Gerhard (2014) “hospitalhūs”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch[1] (in German), 6th edition