‖Zondagshuis, noun
- Plurals:
- Zondagshuise/ˈzɔndaxs ˈhœɪsə//ˈzɔndaxs ˈheɪsə/, and (formerly) Zondagshuizen.
- Origin:
- Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans (now obsolete), from Dutch Zondag Sunday + linking phoneme -s- + huis house.
Sunday house. Also zondagshuisje [Dutch -je see -ie].
1900 M. Marquard Lett. from Boer Parsonage (1967) 75Zondagshuizen are being broken into and searched, — my heart is sore for many of our people with the terrible loss this will mean to them.
1967 L. Marquard in M. Marquard Lett. from Boer Parsonage 24A feature of Winburg, as of any small Free State town, was the Zondagshuisje (little Sunday house)...These houses were, as the name indicates, intended for week-end use only, but after the Boer War, when it sometimes became necessary to have children living in town for school, the Zondagshuis served that additional purpose.
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