Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest. · To spend the night. · To kick (a ball) a long distance.
The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch). · A group of birds roosting together. · A bedroom. · The open cross-joists or inner roof of a cottage or living space.
From Middle English roste (“chicken's roost; perch”), from Old English hrōst (“wooden framework of a roof; roost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrōst, from Proto-Germanic *hrōstaz (“wooden framework; grill”); see *raustijan. Cognate with Dutch roest (“roost”), German Low German Rust (“roost”), German Rost (“grate; gridiron; grill”).
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