cottage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“cottage, hut”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Old Norse kot, from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, possibly borrowed from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota (“hut, tent”), probably akin to Proto-Iranian *kátah (“house; roof”). However, also compare Dutch and English hut.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Koate (“cottage, hut, small house”), Dutch kot (“ramshackle housing”), German Kate, Kote (“cot, cottage, hut”), Norwegian Bokmål kote (“cot, cottage, hut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kot, kott (“small house; small room”), Norwegian Nynorsk kote, kotto, kåte (“hut”), Swedish kåta (“cot, cottage, hut”), Ainu コタン (kotan, “village; town; island; land; country; place”), Akkala Sami куэһть (kueht’, “hut, tent”), Brahui کڈی (kuḍḍī / kuḍī, “hut, small house; wife”), Erzya кудо (kudo, “house”), Estonian koda (“building, house”), Finnish kota (“house, hut”), Hungarian ház (“house”), Kildin Sami куэдтҍ (kuedt’, “hut”), Komi-Permyak керку (kerku, “house, hut”) Komi-Zyrian керка (kerka, “house; family”), Livonian kuodā (“house”), Malayalam കുടി (kuṭi, “dwelling, house; hut; clan”), Moksha куд (kud, “house”), Mongolian хот (xot), ᠬᠣᠲᠠ (qota, “city, town”), Northern Sami goahti (“hut, tent; den, lair”), Southern Sami gåetie (“house; range; tent”), Tamil குடி (kuṭi, “ryot; tenants; citizens; family, household; descent, lineage; caste, race; house, mansion; village”), Udmurt корка (korka, “house, hut”), Ume Sami gåhtie (“tent”), Votic kõta (“house”); also Abkhaz ақыҭа (akəta, “village; community”), Armenian քաղաք (kʻaġakʻ, “city, town”), Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian ха́та (xáta, “house, hut”), Czech and Polish chata (“hut”), Gurani کەَ (ka, “house”), Pashto کلی (kəlay, “village”), Persian کده (kade, “house; village”), Northern Kurdish kedî (“domestic”), Yaghnobi кат (kat, “house”).
Old Northern French cote is probably from Old Norse kot (“hut”), cognate of Old English cot of same Proto-Germanic origin.
Slang sense “public toilet” from 19th century, due to resemblance.
Inflected forms:
form: cottages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cottages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cottaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cottaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cottaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small house.
pos: noun
examples: So when four years were wholly finished, / She threw her royal robes away. / “Make me a cottage in the vale,” she said, / “Where I may mourn and pray.
gloss: A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.
pos: noun
examples: Most cottages in the area were larger and more elaborate than my home.
Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”
gloss: A public lavatory.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
slang
gloss: A meeting place for homosexual men.
pos: noun
tags: Polari
gloss: To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
pos: verb
gloss: To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
pos: verb
tags: Polari
intransitive
Related words: cosset
cot
coterie
Derived words: cottage bacon
cottage cheese
cottage cheese ass
cottagecore
cottage country
cottage court
cottage food operation
cottage fried potatoes
cottage fries
cottage fry
Cottage Grove
cottage home
cottage hospital
cottage industry
cottageless
cottagelike
cottage loaf
cottage orchard
cottage orné
cottage parent
cottage piano
cottage pie
Cottage Point
cottage pudding
cottager
cottage suite
cottagey
Creole cottage
electronic cottage
summer cottage
Swiss Cottage
telecottage
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