inn的词源

英文词源

inn

inn: [OE] An inn was originally literally a place one lived or stayed ‘in’. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *innam, which was a derivative of the ancestor of the modern English adverb in, and in Old English it meant simply ‘house where one lives, abode, home’. This sense survived into the 17th century (‘Queen Mary gave this House to Nicholas Heth, Archbishop of York, and his successors for ever, to be their Inne or Lodging for their Repair to London’, James Howell, Londinopolis 1657), and a memory of it remains in London’s Inns of Court, which originated as lodgings for lawyers.

The later sense ‘public house, tavern’ developed towards the end of the 14th century.
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inn (n.)

Old English inn "lodging, dwelling, house," probably from inne (adv.) "inside, within" (see in). Meaning "public house with lodging" is perhaps by c. 1200, certainly by c. 1400. Meaning "lodging house or residence for students" is early 13c. in Anglo-Latin, obsolete except in names of buildings that were so used (such as Inns of Court, mid-15c.).

中文词源

inn：小酒店，客栈

来自in,里面，入内。引申词义小酒店，客栈。

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inn：小旅馆，客栈

从古英语时期至今，inn的词形一直未曾变化。它的原义为a place one lived or stayed‘in’，即“住处”，同in（在里面）一词多少有些联系。这一词义仍残留在Inns of Court（律舍）和Inns of Chancery（法律预备生教学与住宿大楼）这两个专有名词中。inn的今义“小旅馆”或“客栈”是14世纪末才获得的。

inn：客栈，小旅馆

同源词：in