Etymology

hostelry

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Today it means: An inn that provides overnight accommodation for travellers (and, originally, their horses). Full definition →

Middle English hostelerie ← Middle French hostellerie ← Old French hostelerie
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromhostelerie
  2. Middle French · derived fromhostellerie
  3. Middle English · inherited fromhostelerie
  4. English todayhostelry

From Middle English hostelerie, from Middle French hostellerie, from Old French hostelerie, ostelerie; by surface analysis, hostel + -ry.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.