English

rowhouse

From row + house.

A compound of row + house

Proto-Indo-European *Hreyk- ‘to line up; to arrange’

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Proto-Germanic *raiwō

Proto-West Germanic *raiwu

Old English rǣw ‘row, line’

Middle English rewe ‘row’

English row

Proto-Germanic *hūsą

Proto-West Germanic *hūs

Old English hūs ‘dwelling’

Middle English hous ‘house’

English house

Today it means

noun One of a row of houses situated side by side and sharing a common wall.

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

Etymograph / rowhouse