heofonhus

Old English

Etymology

From heofon (“ceiling”) +‎ hūs (“house”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxe͜o.fon.xus/, [ˈhe͜o.von.hus]

Noun

heofonhūs n

1. a house with a ceiling

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	heofonhūs	heofonhūs
accusative	heofonhūs	heofonhūs
genitive	heofonhūses	heofonhūsa
dative	heofonhūse	heofonhūsum

Further reading

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “heofon-hús”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (in Old English), second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.