huishouden.
to do housekeeping; keep house
Meaning & usage
to do housekeeping; keep house
to ravage, make a shambles
Where this word comes from
From huis (“house, home”) + houden (“to keep, maintain”).
the housekeeping
a household, domestic unit of cohabitating people
Where this word comes from
Alteration (influenced by the verb at Etymology 1) of earlier huishoud, from Middle Dutch huushout. Cognate with English household, German Haushalt.
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