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I don't know about that particular history, but naming things is hard and naming cafes and hotels based on foreign places was kind of customary. "Cafe Wien" (ob

I don't know about that particular history, but naming things is hard and naming cafes and hotels based on foreign places was kind of customary. "Cafe Wien" (obviously nod to Viennas Coffee house culture), etc. In Germany at least the Country + Hof combination is still fairly common for established hotels ("Englischer Hof", literally "English Yard/court"). So I could very well imagine that someone founding a Cafe looked at which names were already used in town and settled on "Scottish", maybe also due to 'underdog' sympathies perhaps with Scotland (?) but that is pure speculation on my part.

Symbiote 5y ago
I had Hof as a cognate to "hall", but that's not correct, it primary cognate is "hovel". But there's a modern meaning of "pub" — via Korean! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/huf%C4%85 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic...
- wirrbel 5y ago
  hall is cognate to Halle I think. The proper standard German translation for hall might be Gutshof. But primarily, Hof refers to a yard, and then derived from that, are related meanings. It can refer to a farm (in many German regions a farm consists of several houses /stables arranged in a way that the buildings form the enclosure of a yard, "der Hof", see also David Hasselhof: Hassel-Hof, the Farm of Hassel). A rural hotel/Restaurant is sometimes referred to as a Gasthof (Gast=Guest). court of justice = Gerichtshof royal court = Königshof atrium = Vorhof The Korean word your referencing seems to stem from Hofbräu, which refers to the royal court, Hofbräu is the Bräu (= brew) with the royal warrant (from the Königs-Hof).
- Turing_Machine 5y ago
  Think "Pizza Hut", "Radio Shack", etc.
Turing_Machine 5y ago
In one of his books, Richard Feynman told of staying in the "Hotel City" (in Switzerland, I believe), observing that in America they would have called it the "Hotel Cité", because using a foreign name makes it sound fancier.

Symbiote 5y ago

I had Hof as a cognate to "hall", but that's not correct, it primary cognate is "hovel". But there's a modern meaning of "pub" — via Korean! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/huf%C4%85 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic...

wirrbel 5y ago
hall is cognate to Halle I think. The proper standard German translation for hall might be Gutshof. But primarily, Hof refers to a yard, and then derived from that, are related meanings. It can refer to a farm (in many German regions a farm consists of several houses /stables arranged in a way that the buildings form the enclosure of a yard, "der Hof", see also David Hasselhof: Hassel-Hof, the Farm of Hassel). A rural hotel/Restaurant is sometimes referred to as a Gasthof (Gast=Guest). court of justice = Gerichtshof royal court = Königshof atrium = Vorhof The Korean word your referencing seems to stem from Hofbräu, which refers to the royal court, Hofbräu is the Bräu (= brew) with the royal warrant (from the Königs-Hof).
Turing_Machine 5y ago
Think "Pizza Hut", "Radio Shack", etc.

Turing_Machine 5y ago

In one of his books, Richard Feynman told of staying in the "Hotel City" (in Switzerland, I believe), observing that in America they would have called it the "Hotel Cité", because using a foreign name makes it sound fancier.