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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024Ostel
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WORD DOSSIERS
nounhistorical-form prefix
hostel
A lodging place, especially an inexpensive dormitory-style accommodation, continuing the older hospitality branch shared with hospital and hotel.
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hotel
A public lodging establishment, borrowed from French hôtel through Old French hostel and ultimately the Latin hospitality family.
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Anglo-French / Indo-European
ostel / hostel
lodging or accommodation
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- Anglo-French, c. 1066–1500
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- historical-form prefix
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
hostel
an inn or inexpensive lodging facility
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- 14th century–today
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- gloss
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- 1
Middle English / Indo-European
hostel
lodging, accommodation, inn, or dwelling place
- DATE
- Middle English, 14th–15th centuries
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- 1
Old French / Indo-European
hostel / ostel
lodging or accommodation
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- Old French
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- gloss
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- 1
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 3
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Is hostel a shortened modern form of hotel?
No. Hostel is the historically older-looking English doublet. Both words descend by different French histories from Latin hospitāle.
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Is hotel directly shortened from hospital?
No. Hotel and hospital are doublets: both reach Latin hospitāle, but hotel comes through French hôtel and Old French hostel while hospital comes through Anglo-French hospital.
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When did hotel enter English?
Merriam-Webster reports 1687 for the lodging noun, after French hôtel had developed from Old French hostel.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 2
RANK 150GRADE Aranked reveal
Hotel and hospital are siblings, not parent and child.
French hôtel continues Old French hostel, while hospital follows a related learned route through the same Latin guest-accommodation family. English hotel is not simply a shortening of English hospital.
RANK 173GRADE Acontrarian claim
Hostel is older than the modern hotel story.
Hostel, hotel, and hospital are doublets from Latin guest lodging. Hostel preserves the older-looking French form; it is not a recent clipping of hotel.
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
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DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted book
The first edition of the Académie française dictionary prints HOSTEL as a headword in the historical French family later normalized as hôtel.
hôtel / hotel / 1694
Le dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Tome 1 (A–L), première éditionwitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexicographic first use
Merriam-Webster first-known-use record for hostel
hostel / hostel / First known use reported as the 14th century
Hostel — Definition and Word Historyreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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