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CABIN , a small, roughly built hut or shelter; the See also:

TERM

term is particularly applied to the thatched mud cottages of the See also:

NEGRO (from Lat. eager, black)

negro slaves of the See also:

SOUTHERN

southern states of the Unites States of See also:

AMERICA

America, or of the poverty-stricken peasantry of See also:

Ireland or the See also:

CROFTER

crofter districts of See also:

Scotland. In a See also:

SPECIAL

special sense it is used of the small rooms or compartments on See also:

BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board a See also:

VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel used for sleeping, eating or other See also:

ACCOMMODATION (Lat. accommodare, to make fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure)

accommodation. The word in its earlier See also:

ENGLISH

English forms was cabane or caban, and thus seems to be an See also:

ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of the See also:

French cabane; the French have taken cabine, for the See also:

ROOM

room on board a See also:

SHIP

ship, from the English. In French and other Romanic See also:

LANGUAGES

languages, in which the word occurs, e.g. See also:

SPANISH

Spanish cabana, Portuguese cabana, the origin is usually found in the See also:

MEDIEVAL

Medieval Latin capanna. Isidore of See also:

Seville (Origines, See also:

LIB

lib. xiv. 12) says:—Tugurium (hut) parva casula est, quam faciunt See also:

SIBI

sibi custodes vinearum, ad tegimen seu quasi tegurium. Hoc rustici Capannam vocant, quod unum tantum capiat (see Du Cange, Glossarium, s.v. Capanna). Others derive from See also:

Greek K&irf, See also:

CRIB (a word common to some Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch krib and Ger. Krippe; it has a common origin with the O. Eng. " cratch," a manger or crib, cf. Fr. creche)

crib, manger. See also:

SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat considers the English word was taken from the Welsh caban, rather than from the French, and that the See also:

ORIGINAL

original source for all the forms was See also:

CELTIC

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