Etymograph

English

acid house

Acid house may come from English acid ‘LSD, psychedelic drugs’.

  1. English1500–presentacid‘LSD, psychedelic drugs’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1989acid house

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. English1500–presentacid‘LSD, psychedelic drugs’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1989acid house

Earliest quotation: 1989, Sean O'Hagan, Acid House: “Acid House, this year's underground musical phenomenon, had finally…”

Made of the words acid + house

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- ‘sharp’

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Proto-Italic *akēō

Latin aceō ‘to be sour’

Latin acidus ‘sour’

French acide ‘acid’

English acid

Proto-Germanic *hūsą

Proto-West Germanic *hūs

Old English hūs ‘dwelling’

Middle English hous ‘house’

English house

The story

First appears c. 1988, in the periodical New Musical Express. Likely a reference to acid (‘LSD, psychedelic drugs’), influenced by earlier acid rock.

Every English word from English acid

Today it means

noun A style of music from the early rave scene in the UK.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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