Etymology

lodge

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Today it means: A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin. Full definition →

Middle English logge ← Old French loge ← Early Medieval Latin laubia
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*lewbʰ-der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*laubą
  3. Proto-West Germanic*laub
  4. Frankish*laubijā
  5. Early Medieval Latinlaubia
  6. Old Frenchloge
  7. Middle Englishlogge
  8. English todaylodge

From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“an arbour, a covered walk-way”). See also Medieval Latin lobia, laubia; also Old High German louba (“a porch, a gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of loggia and lobby.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchloge all →

loggia

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