Etymology

housing

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Today it means: The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone. Full definition →

Middle English housynge
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housing · noun1

  1. Middle English · inherited fromhousynge
  2. English todayhousing

From Middle English housynge, housinge, from housen (“to house, shelter; receive into one's house”), equivalent to house + -ing. Cognate with Scots housing (“housing”), Old Frisian hūsinge (whence Saterland Frisian Huzenge); compare also Dutch huizing, behuizing (“housing”), Low German husing, hüsing (“housing”), German Behausung (“housing”), Swedish inhysing (“housing”).

housing · verb2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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