eorþhus
Old English
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *erþahūsą. Equivalent to eorþe (“earth”) + hūs (“house”). Cognate with Old Norse jarðhús (“underground room or passage”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editeorþhūs n
Declension
editDeclension 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.