Talk:Cotter (surname)
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We CANNOT put article entitled “ Cottier ” UNDER article entitled “ Cotter ” : this, etymologically and historically, would be a SERIOUS MISTAKE (and I, as a linguist, have often done research, and written on, family names in several Indo-European languages).
If need be - but only if it's REALLY necessary - we may eventually come to dissociate names “ Cottier ” and “ Cotter ” (though that, too, would be a MISGUIDED INTERPRETATION of the origin of “ Cotter ” as a family name).
“ 'Cottier' ” is derived from Latin ''cottus'', referring to a land labourer who did not own the land he worked on, but did not pay rent for it, either : he 'paid back' the owner of the land by cultivating the plot allotted to him, and lived in a small, thatched hut or lodging which came to be called as a 'cottage'.
WHAT FOLLOWS COMES FROM MY OWN WORK AND RESEARCH in ETYMOLOGY AND MEANING OF FAMILY NAMES IN SEVERAL INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES :
“ cottier ” (common noun) :
1. In Switzerland :
A person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. “ Cottiers ” commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm.
2. In France :
Same etymology ane meaning as for 1. (Switzerland)
3. In Great-Britain and Ireland :
cottier, common noun [from Old French. cotier. See also : cotter] ; a medieval English villein [syn: cotter].
In Great-Britain and Ireland : a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [Written also cottar and cotter.]
“ Cottier ” (family name) :
“ Cotter ” (family name) :
Status name from Middle English “ cotter ”, a technical term in the feudal system for a serf or bond tenant who held a cottage by service rather than rent, from Old English “ cot ” : 'cottage', 'hut' ;
(see “ Coates ” + -er agent suffix).
Status name for a cottager, or a topographic name for someone who lived in a relatively humble dwelling (from Middle English “ cotes ” , plural (or genitive) of “ cote ” , “ cott ” ) ; or a habitational name from any of the numerous places named with this word.
“ Kötter ” (family name) : Status name for a farm laborer who lived in a cottage or hovel with no land, from an agent derivative of Middle High German and Middle Low German “ kote ” : 'cottage', 'hovel' .
“ Koth ” (family name) :
German (also “ Köth ” ) : from Middle German “ kote ” ‘cottage’, ‘hovel’, a status name for a day laborer who lived in a cottage and owned no farmland. Elisabeth Cottier Fábián 23:02, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
