Etymology Monday: ‘husband’

husband
O.E. husbonda “male head of a household,” probably from O.N. husbondi “master of the house,” from hus “house” + bondi “householder, dweller, freeholder, peasant,” from buandi, prp. of bua “to dwell” Beginning late 13c., replaced O.E. wer as “married man,” companion of wif, a sad loss for English poetry. The sense of “peasant farmer” (early 13c.) is preserved in husbandry. The verb “manage thriftily” is mid-15c., from the noun in the obsolete sense of “steward” (mid-15c.). Slang shortening hubby first attested 1680s.