Haus

From the German and Jewish surname, from the noun Haus (“house”). Compare Hausmann, House.

Haus (plural Hauses)

1. A surname

• Huas, Usha, aush, Sahu, HuSA, ahus, Shua, USHA

• haus (Italy)

From Middle High German hūs, from Old High German hūs.

• IPA^(key): /hɒɔ̯s/
• IPA^(key): (Vienna) [hɒːs]
• IPA^(key): (Vienna, plural) [ˈhæːz̥ɐ]

Haus n (plural Haiser)

1. house

• Häusl
• Hauserl
• Häuserl
• Hausi
• Hausthür

• Hous (alternative spelling)
• Huus (Ripuarian)

Inherited from Middle High German hūs, from Old High German hūs, from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-.

• IPA^(key): /hʌʊ̯s/, /hɔu̯s/

Haus n (plural Haiser, diminutive Haische)

1. (Moselle Franconian) house

• Hunsrik: Haus
• Luxembourgish: Haus

• Hauß (obsolete)

From Middle High German hūs, from Old High German hūs, from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą.

Cognate with Old Frisian hūs, Low German Hus, Huus, Dutch huis, Icelandic hús, Faroese hús, Danish hus, Norwegian hus, Swedish hus, English house. Doublet of House.

• IPA^(key): [haʊ̯s]

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• Rhymes: -aʊ̯s

Haus n (strong, genitive Hauses, plural Häuser, diminutive Häuschen n or Häuslein n or Häuselein n or Häusle n or Häusel n or Häus'l n or Häusl n or Häusli n or Häuslin n or (rare) Häuselin n or Häuserl n or Hauserl n or (also Ruhrdeutsch) Häusken n or (also Berlinisch) Häuseken n or (esp. 18th ct.) Häusgen n or Häusche n)

1. house

   In dem Haus haben wir mal gewohnt. ― We used to live in that house.

   Mein Großvater starb in dem Haus, wo ich geboren wurde. ― My grandfather died in the house where I was born.

2. home (in various phrases)

   Synonyms: Zuhause, Heimat

   Dann gingen wir nach Hause ― Then we went home.

3. theatre

Haus n (proper noun, genitive Haus' or (with an article) Haus)

1. a municipality of Styria, Austria

• “Haus” in Duden online
• “Haus” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Haus”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Inherited from Central Franconian Haus, from Middle High German hūs, from Old High German hūs, from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaʊ̯s/
• Rhymes: -aʊ̯s
• Syllabification: Haus

Haus n (plural Heiser, diminutive Heisje)

1. house

   Sie wohne in em alte Haus.

   They live in an old house.

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Haus”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 73

• haus (Veldeke spelling)
• Hauss (Eupen)
• Hǫǫs, Hǫe̩s

From L-vocalization of Hals.

• IPA^(key): /hau̯s/
• Rhymes: -au̯s

Haus m (Rheinische Dokumenta spelling, German-based spelling, widespread in Southeast Limburgish)

1. alternative form of Hals (“neck/throat”)

Inherited from Central Franconian Haus, from Middle High German hūs, from Old High German hūs, from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-.

• IPA^(key): [hæːʊ̯s] (predominant)
• IPA^(key): [hɑʊ̯s] (former dative, now merely a rarer variant)

Haus n (plural Haiser)

1. house

• Haus in the Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire

From Middle High German and Old High German hūs. Cognate to German Haus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaʊ̯s/, /ˈhaːs/

Haus n (plural Heiser)

1. house
   • 1907, “Das Schulhaus an der Krick”, in The Pennsylvania-German: A Popular Magazine, page 335:

     Die Bump is juscht drei Schritt vum Haus;
     Dart krigt mer's Wasser frisch heraus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2011, Peter Fritsch, Pennsylvania Dutch Halloween Scherenschnitte, page 40:

     Des Haus gans voll mit Gschpuckerei

     The house [is] full of spookiness (i.e. it is haunted)

From Middle High German and Old High German hūs.

Haus n (plural Haiser or Häuser)

1. (Palatine, Frankfurt) house

• The plural Häuser is Frankfurterisch, the form Haiser is Palatine.

• Häusche
• Häusi

From Middle High German hūs, from Old High German hūs, from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą. Cognate to German Haus.

Haus n

1. house

• Claus Stephani, Volksgut der Sathmarschwaben (1985)

From Middle High German hūs, from Old High German hūs, from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą. Cognate to German Haus.

Haus n

1. house

• Häusle
• Häuseli (Friedingen a. d. D.)