Where does “Portakabin” come from?

Portakabin (English) comes from English cabin, from Middle English caban, from Old French cabane, from Occitan cabana, from Late Latin capanna — hut.

Portakabin (English): A type of mobile building

Definitions

  1. A type of mobile building

Ancestry of “Portakabin”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishcabinA small dwelling characteristic of the frontier,...
2Middle Englishcaban—
3Old Frenchcabane—
4Occitancabanacabin, hut
5Late Latincapannahut

Words derived from “Portakabin”

Every word from Late Latin capanna →Every word from Occitan cabana →Every word from Old French cabane →
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