Where does “dwellinghouse” come from?
dwellinghouse (English) comes from English dwelling, from Middle English dwellynge, from Middle English dwellen, from Old English dwellan, from Proto-West Germanic *dwalljan, from Proto-Germanic dwaljaną, from Proto-Germanic -janą, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti — he, she.
dwellinghouse (English): A house intended as a residential building
Definitions
- A house intended as a residential building
Ancestry of “dwellinghouse”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | dwelling | A house or place in which a person lives; a... |
| 2 | Middle English | dwellynge | — |
| 3 | Middle English | dwellen | to dwell; to reside; to live |
| 4 | Old English | dwellan | to mislead, deceive; to hinder; to err, go astray |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *dwalljan | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | dwaljaną | to be confused, perplex; to hold up, delay |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |