Noun: houseau
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | houseau |
| Plural m | houseaux |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like houseau
renouveau,
pocheteau,
berceau,
métamatériau,
ypréau,
ypreau,
chaudeau,
lanterneau,
lapineau,
bordeau,
lapereau,
bouleau,
paonneau,
bandeau,
barreau,
bardeau,
barbeau,
zoziau,
mâtineau,
colineau, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle French houseau, housel, hosel, from Old French huesel, housel (“boot, leggings”), diminutive of huese, hose (“boot, leggings”), from Frankish *husa, *hosa (“boot, leggings”), from Proto-Germanic *husǭ, *hausaz (“covering, shell, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“cover”). Cognate with Old High German hosa (German Hose, “pants”), Old English hose (“hose, pod, husk”), Old Norse hosa (“trousers, stocking”), Old Norse hauss (“skull”). More at hose, hosen. See: German Nouns '
Hose', Old English Nouns '
hose', Old Norse Nouns '
hosa', Old Norse Nouns '
hauss'.
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