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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *husǭ</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_husǭ</idno>
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      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_s_kewhs" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*(s)kewHs-</orth>
        </item>
      </list>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_huso" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/husǭ">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>husǭ</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈxu.sɔ̃ː</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚺᚢᛊᛟ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">feminine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">ōn-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>an outer covering; hull; shell; husk; case</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>covering for the legs; leggings, trousers</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Probably a nominal formation from Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_s_kewhs"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_s_kewhs">*(s)kewHs-</ref></mentioned>, an s-extension of *(s)kewH- (‘to cover, bewrap’), though Orel is implicitly skeptical and leaves the origin open.</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>husǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>husōniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>husōnų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>husōnunz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>husōniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>husōnǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>husōni</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>husōmaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>husōnē</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>husōmiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>husǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>husōniz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hosā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Late Latin</lang>
                    <orth>hosae</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hosā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*hosa</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>hōse</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>hoos</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>hoos</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hosā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>hose, hosa, hosu</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>hose, hoyse, hosa, hoose</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>hose</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>hose, hoe</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hosā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>*hose</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>Hoose</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>hoas</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hosā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>hosa</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>hose</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Cimbrian</lang>
                        <orth>hóoza</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Hose</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                        <orth>Hues</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                        <orth>הויזן (hoyzn)</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hosā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>hosa</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>hōse, hāse</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German Low German</lang>
                        <orth>Hose, Hoos</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>hosa</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>hose</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>hosa</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>hosa</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                    <orth>hose</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>hosa</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>hosa, husa</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Finnish</lang>
                      <orth>housut</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>hosa</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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