curtilage

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ḱóm“beside, by; near; with”
2. Latin · derived fromcōrtem
3. Old French · derived fromcortillage
4. Anglo-Norman · derived fromcurtilage
5. Middle English · inherited fromcourtelage
6. English todaycurtilage

Inherited from Middle English courtelage, curtilage, curtylage (“vegetable garden; croft; gardening, farming”), from Anglo-Norman curtilage, from Old French cortillage, courtillage (modern French courtillage (obsolete); compare Medieval Latin cortilagium, curtilagium), from cortil, cortill (“small court, garth”) + -age (suffix denoting a relationship with a place). Cortil, cortill are derived from cort, curt (“court of a monarch”) + -il (suffix forming place names); and cort, curt from Latin cōrtem, the accusative singular form of cōrs, a variant of cohors (“court; enclosure; farmyard; etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by; near; with”) + *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”).

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