house
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Origin
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”).
From Middle English housen, from Old English hūsian, from Proto-Germanic *hūsōną (“to house, live, dwell”), from the noun (see above). Compare Dutch huizen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German Low German husen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German hausen (“to live, dwell, reside”), Norwegian Nynorsk husa (“to house”), Faroese húsa (“to house”), Icelandic húsa (“to shelter, house”).
Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lineage
- inheritedMiddle Englishhous
- inheritedOld Englishhūs “dwelling, shelter, house”
- inheritedProto-West Germanic*hūs
- derivedProto-Germanic*hūsą “house”
- inheritedOld Englishhūs “dwelling, shelter, house”
- rootProto-Indo-European*(s)kewH- “to cover; to conceal, hide”
- inheritedMiddle Englishhousen
- inheritedOld Englishhūsian
- inheritedProto-Germanic*hūsōną “to house, live, dwell”
- inheritedOld Englishhūsian
- derived (possibly)EnglishThe
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- derivedEnglishਰਾਵਾ “commander, king”
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- derivedEnglish1535:
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- derivedEnglishhide “To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.”
- derivedEnglishLa “A surname”
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- derived (possibly)Old Norsein
- derivedClassical Latinumbilicus
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- derivedOld EnglishTæbba
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- partEnglisheven “Flat and level.”
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- partOld Englishworþ “enclosure”
- inheritedMiddle Englisha
- inheritedMiddle Englishof
- inheritedMiddle Englishaw
- borrowedRussianа
Related: Scots hoose, Yola heouse, North Frisian hüs, Saterland Frisian Huus, West Frisian hûs, Alemannic German hous, Mòcheno haus, Central Franconian Haus, Dutch huis, Dutch Low Saxon hoes, German Haus, German Low German Huus, Limburgish hoes, Luxembourgish Haus, Vilamovian haojs, Yiddish הויז, da,nb,nn,sv hus, Elfdalian aus, fo,is hús, Crimean Gothic hus, Cornish kudha, Welsh cuddio, Latin cutis, Ancient Greek κεύθω
Words built on it: can house, play house, field house, news-house
Sources
- Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wiktionary: house