Etymology

field house

Today it means: A tent. Full definition →

Middle English *feldhous ← Old English feldhūs
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromfeldhūs“a tent”
  2. Middle English · inherited from*feldhous
  3. English todayfield house

From Middle English *feldhous, from Old English feldhūs (“a tent”), equivalent to field + house. Modern sense is from 1895, originally, a side building by an outdoor sports field, later used for large buildings for indoor sports.

Words from the same roots

Middle English*feldhous all →

fieldhouse

Old Englishfeldhūs all →

fieldhouse

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.