HUS

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Name Element

Contents 1 Origin and Meaning 1.1 Old Norse 1.2 Gothic 1.3 Old Swedish 1.4 Anglo-Saxon 1.5 Old High German 2 Combinations 3 First Element Forms 4 References

Origin and Meaning

Germanic name element

Old Norse

hús = 'house' ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Gothic

-hūs = 'house' ^[4]
hus = 'house' ^[5]

Old Swedish

hús = 'house' ^[3]

Anglo-Saxon

hús = 'house' ^[5]

Old High German

hūs = 'house' ^[4]

Combinations

Name Element	Example
BJÖRN	see Húsbiǫrn
KARL	see Húskarl

First Element Forms

Hús-

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
3. ↑ Elias Wessén: Våra ord (1997)
4. ↑ Günther Drosdowski: Duden Etymologie - Herkunftswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1997)
5. ↑ Walter W. Skeat: The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (1993)