Word Origin Summary

Hūs is attested in Old Dutch. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• hoes

  Limburgish · inherited from

• häus

  Jersey Dutch · inherited from

• Warmenhuizen

  Dutch · inherited from

• Huizen

  English · borrowed from

• huus

  Middle Dutch · inherited from

• huis

  Dutch · inherited from

• huis

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• Den Huizen

  Dutch · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root