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means A place where someone lives — a house, flat, or any structure used as a home.
from From Old English dwellan, which carried the curious sense of 'to lead astray, hinder, delay' — to make someone tarry or linger. Over time that 'lingering' softened from being stuck in one spot to settling in one spot, and by Middle English to 'dwell' meant simply to remain or reside. A cousin in the old Germanic tongues, with relatives like Old Norse dvelja (to delay). So a dwelling is, at root, the place you lingered long enough to call yours.
- root meaning
- Old English dwellan once meant to delay or lead astray
- oldest known
- humans built shelters over 400,000 years ago
- legal weight
- law protects a dwelling more fiercely than empty buildings
- smallest legal
- some tiny homes squeeze life into 100 square feet
fallingwater — frank lloyd wright's cantilevered house over bear run creek in pennsylvania, built 1935
monte rosa hut — highest inhabited dwelling in alps at 4,634 meters, switzerland
hobbit holes matamata — the shire film set dwellings still standing in new zealand from lord of the rings