Etymology
1. 1231, from O.Fr.
loge "arbor, covered walk" (Mod.Fr. "hut, cabin, lodge box at a theater"), from Frank.
*laubja "shelter" (cognate with O.H.G.
louba "porch, gallery," Ger.
Laube "bower, arbor"), likely originally "shelter of foliage," from the root of
leaf. "Hunter's cabin" sense is first recorded 1465. Sense of "local branch of a society" is first recorded 1686, from 14c.
logge "workshop of masons." The verb is c.1225, "to stay in a lodge, to put someone up in a lodge," from O.Fr.
logier, from
loge. Sense of "to get a thing in the intended place, to make something stick" is from 1611.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der.?
4. Proto-Germanic *laubą
5. Proto-West Germanic *laub
6. Proto-Germanic *-jô
7. Proto-West Germanic *-jō
8. Frankish *laubijābor.
9. Early Medieval Latin laubiader.
10. Old French logebor.
11. Middle English logge
12. English lodge
13. From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“an arbour, a covered walk-way”).
14. See also Medieval Latin lobia, laubia; also Old High German louba (“a porch, a gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of loggia and lobby.
Verbs referencing "lodge"
Esperanto
loĝi, Spanish
alojar, Ido lojar.