Cott

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A small, simple dwelling or hut, a term found mainly in older Scottish and northern English usage
2. An humble little house or cottage, a dialect word used in some older regional English speech
3. A modest rustic dwelling, typically a small cottage, recorded in older Scots and northern English dialects

Etymology: The older sense of "cott" is a humble building. In Old English, a "cot" was a small hut or cottage, from a Germanic root shared with Old Norse "kot" and Dutch "kot", which still means a student room or small homestead. Its distant relative is "cottage". The bed sense is unrelated. It was borrowed into English from an Indian language, ultimately of Dravidian origin, and it refers to a small, light bed. "Cott" was an older spelling of the same word, and it is now obsolete.