sickhouse
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The sickhouse was a cool, capacious, and convenient building, well adapted to the purpose for which it was used."
- "What was still called the new sickhouse, where people were taken to be tended if their illness was contagious, […]"
- "Four months after giving birth to a daughter, Peggy returned to the sickhouse with a "rising breast," […]"
Etymology
From Middle English sykhous, sek hous (“hospital”, literally “the house for the sick”), equivalent to sick + house. Cognate with Dutch ziekenhuis (“hospital”), German Low German Süükhuus, Sükenhuus (“hospital”), Norwegian sykehus (“hospital”), German Siechhaus, Siechenhaus (“infirmary”), Danish sygehus (“hospital”), Swedish sjukhus (“hospital”), Icelandic sjúkrahús (“hospital”), West Frisian sikehûs (“hospital”). Compare also German Krankenhaus (“hospital”), Saterland Frisian Kroankenhuus (“hospital”), and Old English lǣċehūs (“hospital”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sykhous