Picture a small hut at the side of a road, kept for whoever needs to stop for the night. You are not moving in; you are staying. From that one picture English gets both the general idea — somewhere to sleep, the thing a job or a trip pays for — and the older, concrete version of it: a couple of rooms in another person's house, rented by the week.
From the word’s history
The packet's Wiktionary entry gives lodge + -ing, with lodge traced back through Old French loge, a hut or shelter — which is the hut in the core picture.
來源資料把 lodging 記成 lodge 加 -ing，並把 lodge 一路追到古法語 loge（小屋、棚子）。核心畫面裡那間小屋，就是從這條線來的。
packet evidence, Wiktionary 'lodging' etymology_text: 'From lodge + -ing.' with the tree Old French loge < Frankish *laubijā
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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lodgingnoun/ˈlɑd͡ʒɪŋ/
- 1
A place to live or lodge.
- 2
Sleeping accommodation.
- When I was a Cloister-monk, I was once sent to Durham on business of our Church; and coming home again, the dark night caught me at Risby, and I had to beg a lodging there.
- 3
Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation.
- 4
agriculturebusinesslifestyleThe condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged so that it cannot stand upright, as by weather conditions or because the stem is not strong enough to support the plant.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。