hus

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

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.

hus n

1. (Gressoney) house

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

• 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

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

Krause & Slocum argue that the h was silent.[1]

hus

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

     Hus. Domus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦus]

hus

1. genitive plural of husa

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈhuˀs]

hus n (singular definite huset, plural indefinite huse)

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

• bolig

hus

1. imperative of huse

• “hus” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

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

hus

1. shoo!

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

hus

1. Alternative form of hous

hus

1. Alternative form of his (“his”)

hus

1. Alternative form of his (“his”)

hus

1. Alternative form of us

• us

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /hʉːs/, [hʉʷːs]
• Rhymes: -ʉːs

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.

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

1. a house

• huse

hus

1. imperative of huse

• “hus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /hʉːs/

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

1. a house

• “hus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

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.

• Danish: hus

From Proto-West Germanic *hūs.

hūs n

1. house

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.

• 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

• “hūs”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

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

• IPA^(key): /xuːs/, [huːs]

hūs n

1. house

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

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

hūs n

1. house

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum, Mooring: hüs

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

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.

hūs n

1. house

• bluozhūs

• 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: [haʊ̯s][1]
      • Hunsrückisch:
        • Hunsrik: Haus
    • Ripuarian: Huus
      • Kölsch: Huus [huːs][2]
  • German: Haus
  • Luxembourgish: Haus
  • Rhine Franconian:
    • Pennsylvania German: Haus
  • Vilamovian: haojs
  • Yiddish: הויז‎ (hoyz)

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.

hūs n

1. house

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

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

hūs n

1. house

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

• Swedish: hus

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

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

• IPA^(key): [ɦus]

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

1. goose

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

• “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

• hws (archaic)

• IPA^(key): /hʉːs/

• audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʉːs

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

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

• kåk
• stuga

• gå man ur huse

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

hus c

1. beluga (Huso huso)

• hus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• SUH

From Dutch.

hus anim (plural husàk)

1. bucket

From Proto-Slavic *gǫ̑sь

• IPA^(key): /ɦus/

hus f

1. goose

• “hus” in Soblex