102 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



HOTTSE. 



Icel. hus, domus ; Suio-Goth.. and Moeso-Goth.. hus, a house, 

 and husa, to house ; Dan. huus ; Sw. hus ; 0. H. G. hus ; Mod. Ger. 

 haus ; Dut. huis, huys ; Belg. huis. 



A.-S. hus, a house, building, cottage ; "Wei. ty, ti, tig, hws, 

 (see Littre infra), covering, housing ; Gael. Ugh, taigh, teach, 

 and ardach ; Ir. teach, tigh, teg ; Corn, ti, ty, chy ; Manx tie ; 

 Bret, ti, pi. tiez or tier, kear or ker. 



Gr. oLKia, SwfjLa, tol^os, T€t;)(os, rcyos ; It. domicilio, ahitauone, 

 dimoro, albergo, casa, pronounced in Florence hasa (the same now 

 as in Ihre's time, 150 years ago); Sp. doniicilio, residencia, mo- 

 rada ; Port, casa, morada, hahitacdo ; Fr. domicile, maison, chateau ; 

 Sansc. teg. 



"Wachter thinks hus comes from h'uten, tegere, A.-S., hydan, 

 whence we have Ger. h'iitte. Susa, tecto recipere. Husharl, 

 husman, house servant, huskona, maid servant, hushonde, pater 

 familias, husgerdd, house utensils, huslonad, tapestry, hustru, 

 wife. TJngar. haz ; Sclav, hisha; Croat, kuzha^ Ihre. 



" Siis, (Ulf. renders oiKia by gards and razn, and 8w/xa by 

 hrot, whereas hiis only occurs once, in the compound gudhus =. 

 tepov, God's house, John xviii. 20 ; in all other Teutonic lan- 

 guages, old and new, hiis is the general word), a house, family." 

 Cleasby. 



" House, to hide, to get hid, Yorks. ;" and ^'housing, a petti- 

 coat, Lincolnsh. ;" also, " houss, a short mantle against showery 

 weather." Halliwell. 



The Fr. housse means the cloth under and behind the saddle, 

 the housing, also the hammer cloth, or covering for furniture, 

 or for the shield of the old knights. 



" Etym. has Latin, housia, houcia, hucia, hussia. Diez derives 

 housse from Low Lat. hulcia, huleitum, which he refers to the 0. 

 H. G. hulst, holster. Sulcia and huleitum are not in Du Cange, 

 nevertheless the conjecture of Diez is probable. Along with it 

 may be mentioned the Kimry hws, a covering." Littre. 



Neither of these two terms, hulcia or huleitum, exists in Ains- 

 worth or Smith's Lat. Diet. 



