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Gehäuse

Meaning

  1. casing, case, housing, shell (frame or box around something)
  2. Short for Kerngehäuse (“core of an apple, pear, etc.”).
  3. (slang) Short for Torgehäuse (“post and crossbar of a goal”).

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Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

ghyys

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡəˈhɔʏ̯zə/
Etymology

From early modern (15th century) gehiuse, geheus, collective of Middle High German hūs (“house”).

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