different between hosp vs hesp

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

English

Alternative forms

• hasp

Etymology

Compare Icelandic hespa (“a hasp, a wisp or skein”). See hasp.

Noun

hesp (plural hesps)

1. (Scotland) A measure of two hanks of linen thread.

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Anagrams

• Ephs, PSHE, Shep, eshp, heps, pehs, shep

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hespe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??sp/
• Hyphenation: hesp
• Rhymes: -?sp

Noun

hesp f (plural hespen)

1. (chiefly Belgium) ham (type of pork, meat from the thigh of a hog)

   Synonym: ham

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *Hácwah. Cognate to Persian ???? (asb).

Noun

hesp m

1. horse

Descendants

• ? Old Armenian: ???? (hasb) (probably)