Noun: sickhouse
| Singular | sickhouse |
| Plural | sickhouses |
Sample Sentences
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The sickhouse was a cool, capacious, and convenient building, well adapted to the purpose for which it was used. [1830, Frederic William Naylor Bayley, Four years' residence in the West Indies:]
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What was still called the new sickhouse, where people were taken to be tended if their illness was contagious, […] [1993, Robert Jordan, The shadow rising:]
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Four months after giving birth to a daughter, Peggy returned to the sickhouse with a "rising breast," […] [2002, Sharla M. Fett, Working cures:]
Nouns inflected like sickhouse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English sykhous, sek hous (“hospital”, literally “the house for the sick”), equivalent to sick + house.
2. 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”).
3. Compare also German Krankenhaus (“hospital”), Saterland Frisian Kroankenhuus (“hospital”), and Old English lǣċehūs (“hospital”). See: Dutch Nouns '
ziekenhuis', Danish Nouns '
sygehus', Swedish Nouns '
sjukhus', Icelandic Nouns '
sjúkrahús', German Nouns '
Krankenhaus', Old English Nouns '
lǣċehūs'.
Verbs referencing "sickhouse"
Swedish Nouns
sjukhus, Danish Nouns
sygehus, German Nouns
Siechenhaus.