different between holp vs hosp

English

Etymology

From Middle English holp (first and third person singular past indicative of helpen (“to help”)), from Old English healp (first and third person singular past indicative of helpan (“to help”)), from Proto-Germanic *halp (first and third person singular past indicative of *helpan? (“to help”)). More at help. Cognate with Dutch hielp (“holp”) and German half (“holp”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?lp/, /h??lp/

Verb

holp

1. (archaic) simple past tense of help
   • c. 1605-08, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act V scene ii^[1]:

     Thou art my warrior; I holp to frame thee.

   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[2]:

     Both, both, my girl. / By foul play, as thou sayest, were we heav'd thence, / But blessedly holp hither.

Anagrams

• hopl-, loph

English

Noun

hosp

1. Abbreviation of hospital.

Anagrams

• OHPs, PHOs, Posh, Soph, hops, phos, posh, shop, soph

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English hosp (“reproach, insult, contumely, blasphemy”).

Noun

hosp (plural hosps)

1. detraction, blasphemy, to hold in derision, vilify

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *huspaz (“derision, mockery”), from Proto-Germanic *hut-, *h?t- (“to be naughty, be impudent”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?d- (“to mock”). Related to Old English hyspan (“to mock, scorn, deride”), Old English h?sc (“mockery, derision, scorn, insult”), Old High German hosc (“vilification, ridicule, scorn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xosp/, [hosp]

Noun

hosp m (nominative plural hospas)

1. reproach, contempt, contumely, insult, blasphemy

Declension

Related terms

• hospcwide m (“insulting speech”)
• hospettan (“to ridicule”)
• hospspr?? f (“jeer, taunt”)
• hospul (“contemptible”)
• hospword n (“abusive language, contemptuous expression”)

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “hosp”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 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

From Latin hospes.

Noun

hosp m (plural hosps)

1. (Sursilvan) guest

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) giast

Vilamovian

Noun

hosp f (plural hospa)

1. hasp