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You can make 11 words from huis according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of huis

huis uhis hius ihus uihs iuhs husi uhsi hsui shui ushi suhi hisu ihsu hsiu shiu ishu sihu uish iush usih suih isuh siuh

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Definitions and meaning of huis

huis

Noun

huis

1. plural of hui

Anagrams

• Shiu, husi

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• hys (Cape Afrikaans)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦœis/, [ɦʊ̟i̯s]

Noun

huis (plural huise, diminutive huisie)

1. A house, residence.

Derived terms

• huisie-huisie

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦœy̯s/
• Hyphenation: huis
• Rhymes: -œy̯s

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.

Usage notes

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.

Derived terms

Related terms

• huizen

Descendants

• 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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

huis

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

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɥi/

Noun

huis m (plural huis)

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

Derived terms

• huis clos; à huis clos
• huissier

Further reading

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

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪʃ/

Noun

huis m

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

Interjection

huis!

1. Obsolete spelling of hois

Old French

Alternative forms

• uis

Etymology

From Latin ostium.

Noun

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

1. An external door.

Descendants

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

References

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

Spanish

Alternative forms

• huís (deprecated)

Pronunciation

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

Verb

huis

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