Translation
hut, cabin; shack
Word origin
From French cabane, from Late Latin capanna, a small covered shelter. The same word reached English twice, as cabin through Old French and as cabana through Spanish, so the hut on the mountain and the hut on the beach are the same building in two accents.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- capanna
- English cognates
- cabin, cabana
Examples
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A small wooden hut stood in the forest.
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The hut had only one room and an old bed.
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We slept in the cabin all night long.
A is one room and a roof: a shepherd's hut, a woodcutter's cabin, the shed at the end of the garden. Set against domo, which is a proper house, carries the sense of shelter rather than home. o shrinks it further, to something you would not stand up straight in.
Watch the shape of the word, because Esperanto has a suffix that fits it exactly and does not belong here. -an- means a member or an inhabitant: o is a club member, o a townsperson, a fellow believer in the cause. So reads on paper as - plus -an-, a member of some organisation called Kab. There is no such root. The whole of - is the root, and the noun ending -o is the only piece you can pull off it.
The test is the plural. A member word takes people-shaped derivations - o, o - and takes none of them. It takes o, o, o (a cluster of huts), all of which describe buildings.
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