morþorhus

Old English

Etymology

From morþor (“murder”) +‎ hūs (“house”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmor.θorˌxuːs/, [ˈmorˠ.ðorˌhuːs]

Noun

morþorhūs n

1. (poetic) Hell

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “morþor-hús”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.