huis

huis

1. plural of hui

• Shiu, husi

• hys (Cape Afrikaans)

From Dutch huis, from Middle Dutch huus, from Old Dutch hūs, from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą.

• IPA^(key): /ɦœis/, [ɦʊ̟i̯s]

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huis (plural huise, diminutive huisie)

1. A house, residence.

• huisie-huisie

• IPA^(key): /ɦœy̯s/

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• Hyphenation: huis
• Rhymes: -œy̯s

From Middle Dutch huus, from Old Dutch hūs, from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą. Doublet of osso.

huis n (plural huizen, diminutive huisje n)

1. A house, home; residence.

   Synonym: woning

2. An adjoining building with a separate function.
3. A genealogical house, such as a dynasty.
4. A house or chamber in a lesgislative assembly.
5. A housing structure, casing.

Case forms of this noun remain in, albeit very limited, use:

• The definite genitive des huizes to mean “of the family, household”, e.g. de dame des huizes (“the lady of the house”), een vriend des huizes (“a friend of the family”).
• The dative huize in prepositional expressions used chiefly referring to large manors or jokingly, e.g. in huize Mulder (“at the Mulders’ house”). It is also used in a formal manner in the fixed expression ten huize van (“at the house of”) and van goeden huize.

- domestic, habitation

- genealogical & dynastic

- toponyms

- legislative chamber

• huizen

• Afrikaans: huis
• Javindo: guis, huis, geis, heis
• Jersey Dutch: häus
• Negerhollands: hoes, hus, huus
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: hus (dated)
• Petjo: heis
• Skepi Creole Dutch: huis, hoose

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

huis

1. first-person singular present indicative of huizen
2. imperative of huizen

From Old French huis, uis, from Latin ostium. Compare Walloon ouxh.

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɥi/

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huis m (plural huis)

1. (obsolete except in the fixed expression below) a door, access

• huis clos; à huis clos
• huissier

• “huis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /hɪʃ/

huis m

1. Obsolete spelling of hois: h-prothesized form of uis

huis!

1. Obsolete spelling of hois

• uis

From Latin ostium.

huis m (oblique plural huis, nominative singular huis, nominative plural huis)

1. An external door.

• French: huis
• Norman: us
• Picard: uis
• Walloon: ouxh

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (huis)

• huís (deprecated)

• IPA^(key): /ˈw̝is/ [ˈw̝is]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: huis

huis

1. inflection of huir:
   1. second-person singular voseo present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative