Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. · An apartment building within a public housing estate. · A container; a thing which houses another. · Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.? Proto-Germanic *hūsą Proto-West Germanic *hūs Old English hūs Middle English hous English house From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (“house”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). More at hose. Eclipsed non-native Middle English mees, meson, measoun (“house”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman mes, mies, meis, maisun (“house”). The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simply hūs.) Cognates Cognate with Scots hoose, oos (“house”), Yola heouse, houze, howze (“house”), North Frisian hüs (“house”), Saterland Frisian Huus, Húus (“house”), West Frisian hûs (“house”), Alemannic German hous, hus, husch, hüs, hüüsch (“house”), Bavarian, Cimbrian, Mòcheno haus (“house”), Central Franconian Haus, Hous, Huus (“home”), Dutch huis (“house”), Dutch Low Saxon hoes, huus (“house”), German Haus, Hauß (“house”), German Low German Huus (“house”), Limburgish hoes, Huus (“house”), Luxembourgish Haus (“house”), Vilamovian haojs, haus, hoüz (“house”), Yiddish הויז (hoyz, “house”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hus (“house”), Elfdalian aus (“house”), Faroese and Icelandic hús (“house”), Crimean Gothic hus (“house”); also Cornish kudha (“to conceal, hide”), Welsh cuddio (“to hide”), Latin cutis (“human skin; hide, leather”), Ancient Greek κεύθω (keúthō, “to cover, hide”), Tocharian A kāc (“hide, skin”), Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “to cover”).
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- Root classification mention*(s)kewH-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionhousenm
- Inherited-form mentionhūsang · dwelling, shelter, house
- Inherited-form mention*hūsgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*hūsągem-pro · house
- Derivation mention*(s)kews-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionhusenenm
- Cognate mentionhoosesco
- Cognate mentionheouseyol
- Cognate mentionhüsfrr · house
- Cognate mentionHuusstq
- Cognate mentionhûsfy · house
- Cognate mentionhousgsw
- Cognate mentionhausmhn · house
- Cognate mentionHausgmw-cfr
- Cognate mentionhuisnl · house
- Cognate mentionHausde
- Cognate mentionhoesli
- Cognate mentionHauslb · house
- Cognate mentionhaojswym
- Cognate mentionהויזyi · house
- Cognate mentionausovd · house
- Cognate mentionhusgme-cgo · house
- Cognate mentionkudhakw · to conceal, hide
- Cognate mentioncuddiocy · to hide
- Cognate mentioncutisla · human skin; hide, leather
- Cognate mentionκεύθωgrc · to cover, hide
- Cognate mentionkācxto · hide, skin
- Cognate mentionस्कुनातिsa · to cover
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