Noun: hus
Gender:
Sample Sentences
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c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Mark 2:10-11 (He said to the lame man, "I say to you, arise, take your bed, and go to your house.")
Nouns inflected like hus
wundorhus,
feorhhus,
æppelhus,
sumerhus,
græfhus,
gæsthus,
myltestrehus,
cornhus,
ambihthus,
symbelhus,
eorþhus,
fus,
hus,
wæferhus,
weorchus,
heofonhus,
eardunghus,
hanshus,
capitolhus,
hunda hus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.?
3. Proto-Germanic *hūsą
4. Proto-West Germanic *hūs
5. Old English hus
6. From Proto-West Germanic *hūs.
7. Cognate with Old Frisian hūs, Old Saxon hūs, Old Dutch hūs, Old High German hūs and Old Norse hús. See: Old Norse Nouns '
hús'.
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