10/07/2026
If Haus Maids were a Norwegian company, we’d have a slightly different name over the door: Hus Maids.
In Norway, a house is a hus and that’s no coincidence. English house, German Haus and Norwegian hus are all the same word, each inherited from a single ancient Germanic ancestor.
Over the centuries, English and German both did the same thing to it, stretching that old vowel into the “ow” sound you hear in house and Haus, which is why those two are near-identical. Norwegian took the quieter route and kept it as one clean vowel: hus.
The Vikings even built new words from it and handed them to English. Husband started life as húsbóndi - a “house-dweller.” Hustings, where politicians still stand at election time, comes from hústhing: a “house-assembly.”
Haus is, of course, the German spelling. But this Saturday, with England facing Norway? For one night only, we’re House Maids.
Come on England. 🏴