eorþhus
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Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *erþahūsą. Equivalent to eorþe (“earth”) + hūs (“house”). Cognate with Old Norse jarðhús (“underground room or passage”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]eorþhūs n
Declension
[edit]Declension of eorþhus (strong a-stem)
Descendants
[edit]- Middle English: erthe-hous
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “eorþhūs”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.