hosp
See also: Hosp.
English
Noun
hosp
- Abbreviation of hospital.
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English hosp (“reproach, insult, contumely, blasphemy”).
Noun
hosp (plural hosps)
- detraction, blasphemy, to hold in derision, vilify
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *huspaz (“derision, mockery”), from Proto-Germanic *hut-, *hūt- (“to be naughty, be impudent”), from Proto-Indo-European *kūd- (“to mock”). Related to Old English hyspan (“to mock, scorn, deride”), Old English hūsc (“mockery, derision, scorn, insult”), Old High German hosc (“vilification, ridicule, scorn”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hosp m (nominative plural hospas)
Declension
Declension of hosp (strong a-stem)
Related terms
- hospcwide m (“insulting speech”)
- hospettan (“to ridicule”)
- hospsprǣċ f (“jeer, taunt”)
- hospul (“contemptible”)
- hospword n (“abusive language, contemptuous expression”)
References
- 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
Etymology
Noun
hosp m (plural hosps)
Synonyms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) giast
Vilamovian
Noun
hosp f (plural hospa)
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