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    534 days ago

    Hotel comes from the French word hôtel and that word is is defined as places providing care. Really the h in hotel would be hospitality but really that is not the case.

    • @[email protected]
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      474 days ago

      You can go further back. The Old French ostel is from the Latin hospitale, meaning “inn” or “large house”, which is the noun form of the adjective hospitalis, from hospes, meaning “host”.

      So the H in hotel is for host, kind of.

      (you can go further back into the theoretical language Proto-Indo-European, but there’s no written record of it, so no letter H that we know of)

      • @aubeynarf
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        44 days ago

        And O-circumflex “ô” in French indicates an elided “s”. hô = hos