Hutch
/hʌtʃ/noun
A box, cage, or enclosed compartment, especially for storing or housing animals or items.
Did you know?Hutch is historically linked to words for a chest or coffer, and its deeper ancestry reaches back to an ancient root meaning “to hold” or “contain,” the same family that gave English words like case and chest.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*ḱeh₂-
“to hold, contain”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*kassō
“box, chest”
Old French
OF
huche
“chest, coffer”
Middle English
ME
huche
“a chest or storage box”
Modern English
English
hutch
“an enclosed compartment, especially for animals or storage”