English

innholder

Innholder comes from Middle English inhalder.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of inn + holder

Old English inn ‘a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging’

Middle English in ‘a holiday home or guesthouse’

English inn

Proto-Germanic *haldaną ‘to hold, to keep’

Proto-West Germanic *haldan ‘to hold’

Old English healdan ‘to hold fast, to grasp’

Middle English holden ‘to hold’

English hold

Every English word from Middle English inhalder

noun An innkeeper.

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