Morpheme
Hotel
Type
free base
Denotation
lodging, inn, host, guest, visitor, stranger, foreigner
Etymology
French hôtel; Middle French hostel; Old French ostel; Latin hospitālis, from hospitis, from hospes
Evidence
antihotel, autohotel, ecohotel, hotel, hoteldom, hotelier, hotelish, hotelize, hotelized, hotelizes, hotelizing, hotelkeeper, hotelkeeping, hotelless, hotellike, hotelling, hotelman, hotels, hotelside, hotelward, hotelwards, hotelware, hotelwide, megahotel, multihotel, nonhotel, superhotel
Notes
<l> need not double (but can), especially with inflectional suffixes because of the British spelling convention for unstressed final syllables that end in [əl]/[l̩]
hotel, hostel, and hospital are doublets
hotelier, hosteler, and hostler are doublets
hotelling is the less common British spelling of hoteling
