Noun: hous
| Sg. | hous |
| Pl. | hous; houses; housen |
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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[…]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 […]) [a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “2 Paralipomenon 6:29”, in Wycliffe's Bible:]
Nouns inflected like hous
hous,
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.?
3. Proto-Germanic *hūsą
4. Proto-West Germanic *hūs
5. Old English hūs
6. Middle English hous
7. From Old English hūs, from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą.
8. Cognate with Dutch huis, German Low German Huus, German Haus, Danish hus, Faroese hús, Icelandic hús, Norwegian Bokmål hus, Norwegian Nynorsk hus, Swedish hus. See: Old English Nouns '
hūs', Dutch Nouns '
huis', German Nouns '
Haus', Danish Nouns '
hus', Faroese Nouns '
hús', Icelandic Nouns '
hús', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
hus', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
hus', Swedish Nouns '
hus'.
Verbs referencing "hous"
English Nouns
house, English Nouns
hoose.
Translations