主屋外的那一間小屋
這一組直接就是核心畫面本身：先有「外面那一棟」，再看它拿來做什麼。
noun · B2
A small building that stands apart from a larger main building but belongs with it — for example a shed, a store room, or a stable in the yard behind a house.
附屬小屋
核心畫面
Out plus house. Picture a main building, and then a smaller one standing a little away from it — same yard, same owner, its own four walls. That gap is the whole word. Everything else the word does comes from deciding what to put in that separate little building, or from putting something there on purpose.
這個字可以想成 out（外面）加上 house（房子）：主屋旁邊、另外站著的一間小屋。同一塊地、同一戶人家，但有自己…更多收起
這個字可以想成 out（外面）加上 house（房子）：主屋旁邊、另外站著的一間小屋。同一塊地、同一戶人家，但有自己的四面牆。那個「隔開的一小段距離」大概就是整個字的畫面。後面的各種用法，差別只在你把什麼東西放進那間小屋，或者你刻意把誰搬過去。From the word’s history
Middle English outhous, from out- plus house; Old Norse has the matching úthús.
中古英語 outhous 就是 out- 加 house 組成的，古北歐語也有對應的 úthús。拼法直到今天都還看得出那兩塊。
packet Wiktionary etymology_text for outhouse (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:489596855:27480)
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