BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

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BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within) , in the Scottish phrase " a but and a ben," the inner room of a

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a
temple
; it may be ultimately connected with the
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
of " hide," conceal)

in which there is only one

outer

OUTER

door

DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the
English
- ENGLISH
word, with other forms common in allied
languages
- LANGUAGES
, comes from the same Indo-
European
- EUROPEAN
stem
- STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")
as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

, so that the entrance to the inner room is through the

outer

OUTER

, the but (Old Eng. butan, without). Hence " a but and a ben " meant originally a living room and sleeping room, and so a dwelling or a cottage.

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