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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *erþahūsą. By surface analysis, jǫrð (“earth”) + hús (“house”).
Noun
jarðhús n
- underground room or passage
Declension
Declension of jarðhús (strong a-stem)
Descendants
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “jarðhús”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive