höns

From Old Swedish höns, from Old Norse hœns, hæns (“hens, poultry, fowl”, collectively).

höns n

1. (usually in the plural) chicken, fowl (bird of the genus Gallus, especially Gallus gallus domesticus)

   Vi har höns

   We have chickens

   mata hönsen

   feed the chickens

   springa omkring som yra höns

   run around like headless [dizzy] chickens (idiomatic)

• hönsgård
• hönssömn (“light sleep; nap”)

• höna

• fjäderfä (“poultry”)
• höna (“hen”)
• kyckling (“chick, chicken”)
• tupp (“rooster, cock”)

• höns in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• höns in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• höns in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)