Etymology

hotelier

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Today it means: Someone who owns or runs a hotel. Full definition →

French hôtelier ← Middle French hostel ← Old French ostel
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gʰóstis
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pótis
  3. Proto-Indo-European*gʰóstipotis
  4. Proto-Italic*hostipotis
  5. Latinhospes
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  8. Latinhospitālis
  9. Old Frenchostel
  10. Middle Frenchhostel
  11. Frenchhôtel
  12. Frenchhôtelier
  13. English todayhotelier

Borrowed from French hôtelier.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.