hous

See also: Hous and Hous.

Alemannic German

Etymology

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

Noun

hous n

1. (Issime) home

Related terms

• housunh (“house”)

References

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-

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Proto-Indo-European *-s

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Proto-Germanic *hūsą

Proto-West Germanic *hūs

Old English hūs

Middle English hous

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

Cognate with Dutch huis, German Low German Huus, German Haus, Danish hus, Faroese hús, Icelandic hús, Norwegian Bokmål hus, Norwegian Nynorsk hus, Swedish hus.

Alternative forms

• hus, hows, house

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /huːs/

Noun

hous (plural hous or houses or housen)

1. house, residence
2. house of worship, temple
   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “2 Paralipomenon 6:29”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     […] if ony of þi puple Iſrael biſechiþ, and knowiþ his veniaunce and ſikenesse, and if he ſpꝛediþ abꝛood hiſe hondis in þis hows […]

     […] If any of your people Israel prays, and knows their destruction and disease, and spreads his hands to this temple […]

Derived terms

• alehous
• bakhous
• bochous
• brewhous
• housen
• houshold
• houslek
• housles
• houswyf
• housynge
• husbonde
• jewell hous
• salthous
• tresour-hous

 

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

From Old English ūs.

Pronoun

hous

1. (chiefly Southwest Midland dialect) Alternative form of us

Old French

Alternative forms

• hus, huche, houche, huse, houce, houlx

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *hulis (“holly”).

Noun

hous m (plural houx)

1. (botany) holly

Descendants

• Middle French: hous, houx, houlx
  • French: houx
• Norman: housse (Jèrriais)
• Picard: hoûx (Athois), oûch
• Walloon: hoû (Charleroi), hoûssê (Forrières), hoûs