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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *hūsą</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_hūsą</idno>
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        <p>Single-entry extract from the dictionary. Cross-references to other entries point to their identifiers in the full dictionary.</p>
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      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_s_kuh_s_o_m" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*(s)kuH-s-o-m</orth>
        </item>
      </list>
      <div type="dictionary">
        <entry xml:id="pgmc_husa" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hūsą">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>hūsą</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈxuː.sɑ̃</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚺᚢᛊᚨ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">neuter</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>house</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Of uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_s_kuh_s_o_m"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_s_kuh_s_o_m">*(s)kuH-s-o-m</ref></mentioned>, from *(s)kewH- (‘cover, hide’), referring to a "covered shelter" &gt; "house".</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>hūsą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>hūsō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>hūsą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>hūsō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>hūsas, hūsis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>hūsǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>hūsai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>hūsamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>hūsō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>hūsamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>hūsą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>hūsō</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
          <re type="descendants">
            <list>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>hūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>huus</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Limburgish</lang>
                        <orth>hoes</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>hūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>huus</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>huis</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>huis</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Javindo</lang>
                          <orth>guis, huis, geis, heis</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Jersey Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>häus</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Petjo</lang>
                          <orth>heis</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Skepi Creole Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>huis, hoose</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>hūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>huus</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>huis</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Negerhollands</lang>
                          <orth>hoes, hus, huus</orth>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>Virgin Islands Creole</lang>
                            <orth>hus</orth>
                          </form>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>hūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>hous, hus, hows, house</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>house, haase, heus, hous</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Geordie</lang>
                        <orth>hoose</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>hoose</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yola</lang>
                        <orth>heouse, houze, howze</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>hūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>North Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>?</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>Húus, Huus</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>hûs</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>hūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>hūs, hous</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Haus</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Vilamovian</lang>
                        <orth>haojs, haus, hoüz</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                        <orth>הויז (hoyz)</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>hūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>hūs, hous</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Alemannic German</lang>
                        <orth>Hus, Huus</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Alsatian</lang>
                          <orth>Hüs</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Walser</lang>
                          <orth>hus, hüs, husch, hüüsch, hous</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>hūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>hūs, hous</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Bavarian</lang>
                        <orth>Haus</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Cimbrian</lang>
                          <orth>haus</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Mòcheno</lang>
                          <orth>haus</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Udinese</lang>
                          <orth>haus</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>hūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>hūs, hous</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Central Franconian</lang>
                        <orth>Haus</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Britten</lang>
                          <orth>?</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Hunsrik</lang>
                          <orth>Haus</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                          <orth>Haus</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>hūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>hūs, hous</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Central Franconian</lang>
                        <orth>Huus</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Kölsch</lang>
                          <orth>Huus</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>hūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>hūs, hous</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Rhine Franconian</lang>
                        <orth>?</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Pennsylvania German</lang>
                          <orth>Haus</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*hūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>hūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>hûs</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch Low Saxon</lang>
                        <orth>huus, hoes</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German Low German</lang>
                        <orth>Huus, Hus, Hûs, Hius</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Plautdietsch</lang>
                        <orth>Hus</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>hús</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Elfdalian</lang>
                    <orth>aus</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>hús</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Gutnish</lang>
                    <orth>heus</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>hús</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norn</lang>
                    <orth>hus</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>hus</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>hús</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>hūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>hus</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                        <orth>hus</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>hús</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>hūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>hus</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Crimean Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>hus</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Slavic</lang>
                  <orth>*xyža</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
            </list>
          </re>
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