caravansary

English

Etymology

Anglicization of caravanserai[1] (from Persian), influenced by -ery (“place of”), as if “place of caravans” by reanalysis caravan + -s- (“(interfix)”) + -ary. Compare German Karawanserei.

Noun

caravansary (plural caravansaries)

Alternative spelling of caravanserai
- 1891, George Washington Cullum, ‎Edward Singleton Holden, ‎Charles Braden, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., page 617:
  Casting my fortunes at Mrs. Thompson's, I soon became initiated into the etiquette and usage of that polite caravansary; and I now write of that era of two-pronged forks, and when “saveall” was the choicest dish, and the observances at the table not altogether Chesterfieldian.
- 1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic‎:
  Only in Paris, a cosmopolitan caravansary in itself, did Americans and other foreigners fall nicely into the picture and spoil nothing in the charm of the place.

References

Eric Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, p. 728

[1] Eric Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, p. 728

单词	caravansary
释义	caravansary English Etymology Anglicization of caravanserai[1] (from Persian), influenced by -ery (“place of”), as if “place of caravans” by reanalysis caravan + -s- (“(interfix)”) + -ary. Compare German Karawanserei. Noun caravansary (plural caravansaries) Alternative spelling of caravanserai 1891, George Washington Cullum, ‎Edward Singleton Holden, ‎Charles Braden, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., page 617: Casting my fortunes at Mrs. Thompson's, I soon became initiated into the etiquette and usage of that polite caravansary; and I now write of that era of two-pronged forks, and when “saveall” was the choicest dish, and the observances at the table not altogether Chesterfieldian. 1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic‎: Only in Paris, a cosmopolitan caravansary in itself, did Americans and other foreigners fall nicely into the picture and spoil nothing in the charm of the place. References Eric Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, p. 728
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