Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern. · A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling. · A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds; bight. · A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
From Middle English cove, from Old English cofa (“chamber; den”), from Proto-West Germanic *kobō, from Proto-Germanic *kubô. Cognate with Dutch koof (“cove”), German Low German Koov (“small room”), German Koben (“nook, shed”), Icelandic kofi (“hut, shack”). This word has probably survived as long as it has due to its coincidental phonetic resemblance to the unrelated word English cave. Also unrelated to Spanish cueva, which itself is a cognate of cave.
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