The story
- Old Norse · derived fromhúsþing“house assembly”
- Old English · inherited fromhūsting
- Middle English · inherited fromhusting
- English todayhusting
From Middle English husting, from Old English hūsting, borrowed from Old Norse húsþing (“house assembly”), from hús (“house”) + þing (“council, meeting”), equivalent to house + thing. Cognate with Icelandic húsþing (“assembly”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.