Etymograph

English

hotsheet

From hot + sheet.

A compound of hot + sheet

Proto-Indo-European *keHy- ‘to heat; to become hot’

Proto-Germanic *haitaz ‘hot’

Proto-West Germanic *hait

Old English hāt ‘hot’

Middle English hot

English hot

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- ‘to throw, shoot’

Proto-Germanic *skautijǭ

Old English sċīete ‘a sheet of linen’

Middle English schete ‘linen cloth’

English sheet

Today it means

adj That rents rooms by the hour, often for prostitution purposes.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / hotsheet