cornhus

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kornahūs, from Proto-Germanic *kurnahūsą. Equivalent to corn +‎ hūs.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkornˌxuːs/, [ˈkorˠnˌhuːs]

Noun

cornhūs n

granary

Declension

Declension of cornhus (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cornhūs	cornhūs
accusative	cornhūs	cornhūs
genitive	cornhūses	cornhūsa
dative	cornhūse	cornhūsum

Further reading

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “cornhūs”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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