walk

en-verb

walk (third-person singular simple present walks, present participle walking, simple past and past participle walked)

walks (present singular third-person)
walking (participle present)
walked (participle past)
walked (past)
walk (infinitive)

Chinese Pidgin English: walkee

From Middle English walken (“to move, walk, roll, turn, revolve, toss”), a conflation of Old English wealcan (“to move round, revolve, roll, turn, toss”) (ġewealcan (“to go, traverse”)) and Old English wealcian (“to curl, roll up”); both from Proto-West Germanic *walkan, from Proto-Germanic *walkaną, *walkōną (“to twist, turn, roll about, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg- (“to twist, turn, move”).
Cognate with Scots walk (“to walk”), Saterland Frisian walkje (“to full; drum; flex; mill”), West Frisian swalkje (“to wander, roam”), Dutch walken (“to full, work hair or felt”), Dutch zwalken (“to wander about”), German walken (“to flex, full, mill, drum”), Danish valke (“to waulk, full”), Latin valgus (“bandy-legged, bow-legged”), Sanskrit वल्गति (válgati, “amble, bound, leap, dance”). More at vagrant and whelk. Doublet of waulk.

cog

(intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.


hotel

→ Amharic: ሆቴል (hotel)

→ Assamese: হোটেল (hütel)

→ Bengali: হোটেল (hōṭel)

→ Burmese: ဟိုတယ် (huitai)

→ Hindi: होटल (hoṭal)

→ Japanese: ホテル (hoteru)

→ Khmer: ហោតិល (haotəl)

→ Korean: 호텔 (hotel)

→ Malay: hotel

→ Maori: hōtēra

→ Nepali: होटल (hoṭal)

→ Oromo: hoteela

→ Persian: هوتَل (hôtal) (Dari)

→ Swahili: hoteli

desc

→ Tamil: ஓட்டல் (ōṭṭal)

→ Tamil: ஓட்டல் (ōṭṭal)

→ Thai: โฮเต็ล (hoo-dtel)

→ Tigrinya: ሆቴል (hotel)

→ Tok Pisin: hotel

→ Ukrainian: готе́ль (hotélʹ)

→ Urdu: ہوٹل (hoṭal)

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Late Latin hospitālis (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of hostel and hospital.

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1868, "A Clergyman" (John Morison), Australia in 1866, page 165,
When gold-digging commenced in California, the writer was staying at an hotel in Wellington, New Zealand, where a Yankee trader was also staying. Seated at the dining-table, the latter was discoursing of the business he was doing […] .

Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.

2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:

An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain.


hostel

→ Hindi: हॉस्टल (hŏsṭal)

→ Japanese: ホステル (hosuteru)

→ Korean: 호스텔 (hoseutel)

→ Oromo: hosteela

From Middle English hostel, from Old French hostel, ostel, from Late Latin hospitale (“hospice”), from Classical Latin hospitalis (“hospitable”) itself from hospes (“host”) + -alis (“-al”). Doublet of hotel and hospital. Obsolete from the 16th to 18th centuries, until it was revived by Walter Scott.

(not US) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.

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a temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food


inn

From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”).

cog

the Inns of Court    the Inns of Chancery    Serjeants’ Inns

One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.


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).

(also attributive) A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms whose entrances are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to parked automobiles.

A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.


motel

en-verb

motel (third-person singular simple present motels, present participle moteling or motelling, simple past and past participle moteled or motelled)

motels (present singular third-person)
moteling (participle present)
motelling (participle present)
moteled (participle past)
moteled (past)
motelled (participle past)
motelled (past)

(informal, intransitive) To stay in a motel or motels.


pension

From French pension, from Old French pencion, as etymology 1 above. Doublet of pensione.

A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not

1978, John Irving, The World According to Garp:

A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.


bed and breakfast

en-noun

bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)

→ Danish: bed and breakfast c

→ Dutch: bed and breakfast c

→ French: bed and breakfast m

→ German: Bed and Breakfast n

→ Italian: bed and breakfast m

desc

ベッド・アンド・ブレックファスト

→ Japanese: ベッド・アンド・ブレックファスト (beddo ando burekkufasuto)

→ Spanish: bed and breakfast m

→ Swedish: bed-and-breakfast n

From bed + breakfast, from having a bed for the night and breakfast in the morning on offer.

A private home, guesthouse, small hotel etc. where guests are provided overnight accommodations and served breakfast but usually no other meals.

«крова́ть и за́втрак» («krovátʹ i závtrak») (literal translation)


auberge

Borrowed from French auberge. The term is attested in the fifteenth century as auberge, a loan from a term attested in eleventh century Old Occitan alberga (“camp, hut”), derived from albergar (“to host”). The term originated in Frankish *harjabergu, composed of the elements *harjaz (“army”) (compare German Heer) and *berganą (“to shelter, to protect”), whence German bergen. Doublet of albergo and harbor.


guesthouse

Japanese: ゲストハウス (gesutohausu)

Korean: 게스트하우스 (geseuteuhauseu)

From Middle English gest hous, gistenehus, gystehuse, gesthus, partly from Old English gæsthūs, ġesthūs (“guesthouse, hostel; guest-chamber”), from Proto-West Germanic *gastihūs; and partly from Old Norse gesthús (“guesthouse; guest-chamber”); both from Proto-Germanic *gastihūsą, corresponding to guest + house.

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Low-season competition between the several backpackers and many guesthouses in town keeps prices down, but in high season expect steep price hikes (except at the backpackers) and book ahead.

2004, Mary Fitzpatrick et al., South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 199:

For me, in any case, Ladakh seemed a beautifully unfallen place next to the blue-glass shopping malls of modern Lhasa, the global village of pizza joints and guesthouses that is urban Nepal, or long-isolated Bhutan with its chic new hotels.

2009 March 13, Pico Iyer, “Heaven’s Gate”, in The New York Times:

And Ms. Davies’s 7,000-square-foot guesthouse, the only building from the original estate to survive, is already a favorite among card-playing foursomes and others who want to lounge on the second-story deck and watch dolphins bob in the whitecapped waves.

2009 August 30, Laura M. Holson, “A Dip Into Hollywood”, in The New York Times:

A private house offering accommodation to paying guests; a boarding house; a bed and breakfast.


boarding house

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A boarding school building where boarders live during term time.


bughouse

Well, he was ready for the bughouse, certainly.

1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 277:

(US, slang) A hospital, especially a lunatic asylum.


love hotel

→ Thai: เลิฟโฮเต็ล (lə́əf-hoo-dtel)

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Calque of Japanese ラブホテル (rabu hoteru), from English love + hotel, probably after the rotating sign of the Hotel Love, an early love hotel in Osaka, Japan.

Love hotels differ in terms of price (from about $30 per hour and up), decoration (some may offer features such as sex swings, hot tubs, or round beds, and many are themed), and architecture […].

2021, Margo DeMello, On the Job: An Encyclopedia of Unique Occupations around the World, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 137:

A short-stay hotel found in Japan and elsewhere, operated primarily for the purpose of allowing lovers privacy to have sexual intercourse.


flotel

living quarters built on a floating platform, such as near an offshore oil rig.


boatel

(nautical) A ship, normally moored alongside a quay, used as a hotel


no-tell motel

Suggesting that the encounters will be kept private. Chosen for the rhyme.

There was no reason to pull off the interstate and drive twenty miles down a bumpy local road, just to stay in a dilapidated no-tell motel.

2013, Robin Wasserman, Seven Deadly Sins, volume 1: Lust; Envy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 120:

(slang) A love hotel; a motel where brief sexual encounters are sanctioned.


poshtel

Was it some sort of marketing ploy to drive the declining tourist revenues? More importantly, did it live up to the hype? I strolled around this poshtel in search of answers.

2009 August 15, Louisa Lim, “The ‘poshtel’”, in The Star, Malaysia:

The boutique Safestay hostel, a so-called “poshtel”, is to be floated on AIM by way of a demerger from Safeland, the property company that formed the business three years ago in a joint venture with Moorfield Group.

2014 March 21, Dominic Walsh, “Safestay takes its poshtel to market”, in The Times, UK:

Should you make it to one of the most popular places, Britain, you may want to experience a rising trend: the so-called poshtel, a kind of elegant hostel such as Hoax or Safestay.

2015, Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Where Will Americans Travel in 2015?”, in The New York Times:


no-tell hotel

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fast sheet

I drove down South Parkway. Who did I spy coming out of a fast sheet joint at Forty-sixth Street? One Pocket with a young broad from big foot country.

2011, Iceberg Slim, Trick Baby, page 207:

When she couldn't repay the loan, he introduced Red to hardcore gorilla tactics and gangstered her into the fast sheets and the street game.

2012, James Robinson, Gospel of the Game, page 185:

(slang, chiefly attributive) A hotel or similar establishment catering to prostitutes.


boutique hotel

A small hotel in settings with upscale accommodations and individualized unique selling points.


hotel room

A room at a hotel where a customer can spend the night.