PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. English borrowed a Norse householder compound: hūs plus bōndi or būandi. Band is not a component.
/ˈhʌzbənd/ · noun
A married man in relation to a spouse; borrowed from a Norse compound whose earlier center was householder or master of a house.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Publishes the borrowing and actual components.
Etymology: Old Norse hūsbōndi, hūs plus bōndiIndependently rejects a native house-plus-band analysis.
Word History: basic kinship term is not native EnglishThe graph exposes house and householder and creates no band edge.