winhus

Old English

Etymology

From wīn (“wine”) +‎ hūs (“house”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwiːnˌxuːs/, [ˈwiːnˌhuːs]

Noun

wīnhūs n

  1. winehouse

Declension

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative wīnhūs wīnhūs
accusative wīnhūs wīnhūs
genitive wīnhūses wīnhūsa
dative wīnhūse wīnhūsum

Descendants

  • English: winehouse

References

Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “wín-hús”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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