Housing
late Middle English (in the general sense ‘covering’): from Old French houce, from medieval Latin hultia, of Germanic origin.
wiktionary
From house + -ing.
From Middle English housyng, housinge, howsynge, from Old English *hūsung(“housing”), from Old English hūsian(“to house, shelter; receive into one's house”), equivalent to house + -ing. Cognate with Scots housing(“housing”), Dutch huizing, behuizing(“housing”), Low German husing, hüsing(“housing”), German Behausung(“housing”).
etymonline
housing (n.1)
"buildings, lodgings," early 14c., husing, from house (n.).
housing (n.2)
"ornamental covering," c. 1300, houce "covering for the back and flanks of a horse," from Old French houce "mantle, horse-blanket" (Modern French housse), from Medieval Latin hultia "protective covering," from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *hulfti (source also of Middle Dutch hulfte "pocket for bow and arrow," Middle High German hulft "covering"), from PIE root *kel- (1) "to cover, conceal, save." Sense of "case or enclosure for machine or part" is first recorded 1882, verbal noun from house (v.).
