hus

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• Hus, Huus
• Hüs (Alsatian)
• hüs, husch, hüüsch (Walser)

Etymology

From Middle High German hūs, hous, from Old High German hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą. Cognate with German Haus, German Low German Huus, Dutch huis, English house, Icelandic hús.

Noun

hus n

1. (Gressoney) house

See also

• housunh (“house”), hous (“home”) (Issime)

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hūsą. Akin to English house, German Haus, German Low German Huus, Dutch huis, Swedish hus, Icelandic hús.

Pronunciation

Krause & Slocum argue that the h was silent.

Noun

hus

1. house, home
   • 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter:

     Hus. Domus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

hus

1. genitive plural of husa

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish hus, from Old Norse hús, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (“house”). Doublet of house.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

hus n (singular definite huset, plural indefinite huse)

1. house
2. building
3. block of flats, cottage
4. shell

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• bolig

Verb

hus

1. imperative of huse

Further reading

• “hus” in Den Danske Ordbog

Finnish

Etymology

Related to Karelian huš. Probably also somehow akin to Germanic words (all dialectal): Swedish huss, German huss, English huss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhus/,
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification^(key): hus

Interjection

hus

1. shoo!

Further reading

• “hus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hus

1. Alternative form of hous

Etymology 2

Determiner

hus

1. Alternative form of his (“his”)

Pronoun

hus

1. Alternative form of his (“his”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

hus

1. Alternative form of us

Norman

Alternative forms

• us

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

hus m (plural hus)

1. (Guernsey) door
   • 2006, Marie de Garis, “Enne p'tite ôlure”, in P'tites Lures Guernésiaises, Cromwell Press, published 2006, page 24:

     Ils aeurent aën chocque à quànd al'ouvrissi l’hus, dja, la breune avait épaissi tànt qué nous n'pouvait pas quâsi veis sa môin au d'vànt d'sé.

     They had a shock when they opened the door though; the fog had thickened so much that they could hardly see their hands in front of them.

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

hus

Wikipedia ^no

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hʉːs/,
• Rhymes: -ʉːs

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hús (“house”), from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (“house”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewHs-, from *(s)kewH- (“cover, hide”). Doublet of house.

Noun

hus n (definite singular huset, indefinite plural hus, definite plural husa or husene)

1. a house

Derived terms

Related terms

• huse

Etymology 2

Verb

hus

1. imperative of huse

Further reading

• “hus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

hus

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

From Old Norse hús, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (“house”) of unknown origin. Akin to English house. Doublet of house.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hʉːs/

Noun

hus n (definite singular huset, indefinite plural hus, definite plural husa)

1. a house

Derived terms

Further reading

• “hus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hús, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą.

Noun

hus n

1. house
   • 1241, “Of ransaknæs i hws oc bondæn ær æi hemmæ”, in Code of Jutland, book 2, chapter 99:

     Of man ransaknæs i bondæns hws oc ær han æi sialf hemmæ.

     If the farmer's house is searched and he is not at home himself.

Descendants

• Danish: hus

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hūs.

Noun

hūs n

1. house

Quotations

1. That hus ne bith bi themo thorpe ofto thero aa. That is umbi themo berge

   The house is neither near the town nor the river. It is around the mountain.

   Thia husa thie thiu manna haddon hiera gimakot ne sin met stenon gimakot, aver met holte

   The houses that the men have build are not made with stones, but with wood.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: huus
  • Dutch: huis
    • Afrikaans: huis
    • Javindo: guis, huis, geis, heis
    • Jersey Dutch: häus
    • Negerhollands: hoes, hus, huus
      • → Virgin Islands Creole: hus (dated)
    • Petjo: heis
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: huis, hoose
  • Limburgish: hoes

Further reading

• “hūs”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hūsą. Cognate with Old Frisian hūs, Old Saxon hūs, Old Dutch hūs, Old High German hūs and Old Norse hús.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xuːs/,

Noun

hūs n

1. house

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: hous, hus, hows, house
  • English: house (see there for further descendants)
  • Geordie English: hoose
  • Scots: hoose
  • Yola: heouse, houze, howze

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą.

Noun

hūs n

1. house

Declension

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum, Mooring: hüs

• Saterland Frisian: Húus, Huus
• West Frisian: hûs

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą, whence also Old Saxon hūs, Old Dutch hūs, Old Frisian hūs, and Old English hūs, Old Norse hús.

Noun

hūs n

1. house

Declension

Derived terms

• bluozhūs

Descendants

• Middle High German: hūs, hous
  • Alemannic German: Hus, Huus
    • Alsatian: Hüs
    • Walser: hus, hüs, husch, hüüsch, hous
  • Bavarian: Haus
    • Cimbrian: haus
    • Mòcheno: haus
    • Udinese: haus
  • Central Franconian:
    • Moselle Franconian: Hous
      • Britten:
      • Hunsrückisch:
        • Hunsrik: Haus
    • Ripuarian: Huus
      • Kölsch: Huus
  • German: Haus
  • Luxembourgish: Haus
  • Rhine Franconian:
    • Pennsylvania German: Haus
  • Vilamovian: haojs
  • Yiddish: הויז (hoyz)

References

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą, whence also Old Frisian hūs, Old English hūs, Old Dutch hūs, and Old High German hūs, Old Norse hús.

Noun

hūs n

1. house

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: hûs
  • German Low German: Huus, Hus, Hûs; Hius
  • Dutch Low Saxon: huus, hoes
  • Plautdietsch: Hus

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hús, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (“house”).

Noun

hūs n

1. house

Declension

Derived terms

• siuka hus (“hospital (of monastery)”)

Descendants

• Swedish: hus

References

• hus in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• hus in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 1: A-L

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gǫ̑sь, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

hus f (genitive singular husi, nominative plural husi, genitive plural husí, declension pattern of kosť)

1. goose

Declension

Derived terms

• husí, husací
• húsa, húsatko
• húska
• husička
• husisko

Further reading

• “hus”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Swedish

Alternative forms

• hws (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hʉːs/

• audio

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• Rhymes: -ʉːs

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish hūs, from Old Norse hús, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (“house”).

Noun

hus n

1. a house; a building where people live or work

   ett prydligt, med vackra portaler utsiradt hus

   a neat building decorated with beautiful portals

2. (archaic) a castle; several Swedish castles carry "hus" in their name
3. a house, a home, a household
4. a house, a (royal) family

   Huset Bernadotte har regerat Sverige sedan 1818

   The house of Bernadotte has ruled Sweden since 1818

5. a house, a firm, a company, an institution, a restaurant, a place, a theatre, a chamber of parliament; even when it is not a building of its own

   huset bjuder

   it's on the house

   det var fullt hus på premiären

   the opening night was sold out

   Var håller du hus?

   Where are you?

   husets talman

   speaker of the house (of representatives)

6. (astrology) a house, a section of the zodiac
7. a case, a cover, a box, a housing, a casing

   skruva loss huset och kolla åt vilket håll termostaten sitter

   unscrew and remove the casing to find out which way the thermostat is oriented

Declension

Synonyms

• kåk
• stuga

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• gå man ur huse

Etymology 2

From the genus name, New Latin huso (“sturgeon”).

Noun

hus c

1. beluga (Huso huso)

Declension

Further reading

• hus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• SUH

Unami

Etymology

From Dutch.

Noun

hus anim (plural husàk)

1. bucket

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gǫ̑sь

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦus/

Noun

hus f

1. goose

Further reading

• “hus” in Soblex