Haus

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

Haus (plural Hauses)

1. A surname

• 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)

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

• IPA^(key): /hʌʊ̯s/, /hɔu̯s/

Haus n (plural Haiser, diminutive Haische)

1. (Moselle Franconian) house

• 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

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

• IPA^(key): /haʊ̯s/

Haus n (plural Heiser, diminutive Heisje)

1. house

   Sie wohne in em alte Haus.

   They live in an old house.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

• 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”)

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

• 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/

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.)