Cottage

What “Cottage” means

Noun

1. A small house.
2. A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.
3. A public lavatory.
4. A meeting place for homosexual men.

Verb

1. To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
2. To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.

Where the word comes from

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 / k

Business name ideas with “Cottage”

Industries where “Cottage” fits

We suggest this word for 2 business types and industries, including:

• Bed and Breakfast
• Bed-and-Breakfast Inns