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START / NODE 853Present-Day English13th century–today
husband
A married man in relation to a spouse; borrowed from a Norse compound whose earlier center was householder or master of a house.
“Husband was borrowed into English from a Norse householder word. The spouse sense grew from household status; the word is not house plus band.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Present-Day Englishhusband
married man in relation to a spouse
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Middle English · Middle Englishhusbondehusband; householder
- SOUND CHANGE
- Middle English husbonde develops into modern husband with reduction of the final vowel and stabilized spelling.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- Householder and master senses narrow toward the married-man relation.
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- CONFIDENCE
- established
- CHRONOLOGY
- Recorded in the thirteenth century.
2 CITATIONSHusband — Definition, Word History, and First Known UseEtymology and First Known Use Husband — American Heritage Dictionary and Word HistoryWord History and etymology AUDIT CANONICAL EDGE 856 ↗
Publishes Middle English husbonde and the thirteenth-century horizon.
ORIGINAL ↗Documents the development from householder to spouse.
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