hruse

Old English

Etymology

From Germanic *xruso- ‘ground, ice’. Apparently there is a cognate in Old High German hroso, hrosa ‘ice, crust’. The Germanic root may be from the same Indo-European source as Latin crusta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈhɹuːze/

Noun

hrūse f

  1. earth, the ground

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