husbonde
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hūsbonda; equivalent to hous + bonde.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhu(ː)zˌbɔ(ː)nd(ə)/, /ˈhu(ː)zˌboːnd(ə)/, /ˈhu(ː)zband(ə)/
Noun
husbonde (plural husbondes)
- A husband; a married man.
- Synonym: wer
- A male manager or supervisor.
- The (male) head of a household.
- A farmer or villein; one who tends to the soil.
- (rare) A resident; one who lives somewhere.
Descendants
References
- “hǒus-bō̆nd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 April 2018.
Old English
Noun
hūsbonde f
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hús-bonde”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse húsbóndi, equivalent to hus + bonde. Cognate to English husband.
Noun
husbonde c
- master
- Marknadskrafterna är en bra dräng, men de är en dålig husbonde.
- Market forces are a good servant, but a bad master.
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | husbonde | husbondes |
| definite | husbonden | husbondens | |
| plural | indefinite | husbönder | husbönders |
| definite | husbönderna | husböndernas |