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.
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)
Very cool so really host is the root meaning as far as the written record shows.
And O-circumflex “ô” in French indicates an elided “s”. hô = hos
I guess no one said shower thoughts had to be accurate.
Yeah, they’re not even close for hotel. Here’s the etymology:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/hotel
They’re correct about motel, though:
Yeah, also taking a shower while on the effects of imbibing probably isn’t safe.
Absolutely. It isn’t true. It just should be.
Now explain brothel.
Bicycles
GET ON YOUR BIKES AND RIDE!
Flying by brooms (Bro thel)
No, that’s where we got the word horstel.
Then explain why motels don’t have racecar beds!
And before horses they were called “wotels” because you walked to them.
That makes perfect sense. :-)
Language is just a consensus. If enough people agree about how it works, then that’s how it works.
Huh
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/motel
Blend of motor + hotel, from the original Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo in California, USA, established in 1925 by Arthur Heineman (1878–1974).
While looking for a term to describe the original post, and came across this. I’m going to make a separate post about it
the og motel (1925-1991):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motel_Inn$1.25 a night in 1925
“Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn. You see, if your girl starts acting up, then you take her friend!”
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