To provide or live in shelter or housing; past tense of 'house.'
From Old English 'hus,' related to Old Germanic languages. The basic word for dwelling place hasn't changed much in 1,000+ years, showing how fundamental shelter is to human language.
The word 'house' applies to buildings across wildly different cultures—igloos, yurts, stilt houses, mud huts—showing that while shelter designs vary completely, the concept itself is universal to human survival.
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