husbonde

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hosband, hosbonde, hosebonde, housbande, housbond, housbonde, housboonde, husband, husbande

Etymology

Inherited from Old English hūsbonda; equivalent to hous +‎ bonde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhu(ː)zˌbɔ(ː)nd(ə)/, /ˈhu(ː)zˌboːnd(ə)/, /ˈhu(ː)zband(ə)/

Noun

husbonde (plural husbondes)

1. A husband; a married man.

   Synonym: wer

2. A male manager or supervisor.
3. The (male) head of a household.
4. A farmer or villein; one who tends to the soil.
5. (rare) A resident; one who lives somewhere.

Descendants

• English: husband
  • ⇒ Cantonese: 蝦子餅 / 虾子饼 (haa¹ zi² beng²)
  • → Japanese: ハズバンド (hazubando)
    • ⇒ English: husbando
  • ⇒ Mandarin: 黑漆板凳 (hēiqī bǎndèng) (obsolete)
• Scots: husband
• → Welsh: hwsmon

References

• “hǒus-bō̆nd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 April 2018.

Old English

Noun

hūsbonde f

1. feminine form of hūsbonda; the mistress of a house

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “hús-bonde”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse húsbóndi, equivalent to hus +‎ bonde. Cognate with English husband.

Noun

husbonde c

1. (historical) master

   Coordinate term: matmor

   Marknadskrafterna är en bra dräng, men de är en dålig husbonde.

   Market forces are a good servant, but a bad master.

Declension

Declension of husbonde

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	husbonde	husbondes
	definite	husbonden	husbondens
plural	indefinite	husbönder	husbönders
	definite	husbönderna	husböndernas

Derived terms

• husse

References

• “husbonde”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)