This Slavonic type with the root meaning 'house' has a Pan-Slavonic range cf. e.g.: kro čak. hȋša ‛HOUSE', tsch. chýše ‛House, Hut'. It is a loanword from Germanic which belongs to the base type hûs (cf. SNOJ, under híša). In the Alpine context, the type also denotes more specific concepts, such as FARM, ATTIC, KITCHEN, BED ROOM and, in adjectival compounds, BARN (cf. the map).