gæsthus
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Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From gæst (“guest”) + hūs (“house”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gæsthūs n (nominative plural gæsthūs)
Declension
[edit]Declension of gæsthus (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.