Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather. · A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut. · In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. · A straitjacket.
To put in a hovel; to shelter. · To construct a chimney so as to prevent smoking, by making two of the more exposed walls higher than the others, or making an opening on one side near the top.
From Middle English hovel, hovil, hovylle, diminutive of *hove, *hof (“structure, building, house”), from Old English hof (“an enclosure, court, dwelling, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą (“hill, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“arch, bend, buckle”), equivalent to howf + -el. Compare Middle High German hobel (“cover, lid, covered wagon”). Cognate with Dutch hof (“garden, court”), German Hof (“yard, garden, court, palace”), Icelandic hof (“temple, hall”). Related to hove and hover.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionhovelenm
- Derivation mentionhofang · an enclosure, court, dwelling, house
- Derivation mention*hofgmw-pro
- Derivation mention*hufągem-pro · hill, farm
- Derivation mention*kewp-ine-pro · arch, bend, buckle
- Cognate mentionhobelgmh · cover, lid, covered wagon
- Cognate mentionhofnl · garden, court
- Cognate mentionHofde · yard, garden, court, palace
- Cognate mentionhofis · temple, hall
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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