cove: [OE] Old English cofa meant ‘small room’, as used for sleeping in or as a storeroom. It was descended from Germanic *kubon, which was probably also the ultimate ancestor of cubbyhole [19] (the superficially similar cubicle is not related). In the late Old English period this seems to have developed in northern and Scottish dialects to ‘small hollow place in coastal rocks, cave’, and hence (although not, apparently, until as late as the 16th century) to ‘small bay’. (The other cove [16], a dated slang term for ‘chap’, may come from Romany kova ‘thing, person’.) => cubbyhole
cove (n.1)
early 14c., "den, cave," from Old English cofa "small chamber, cell," from Proto-Germanic *kubon (compare Old High German kubisi "tent, hut," German Koben "pigsty," Old Norse kofi "hut, shed"). Extension of meaning to "small bay" is 1580s, apparently via Scottish dialectal meaning "small hollow place in coastal rocks" (a survival of an Old English secondary sense).
cove (n.2)
"fellow, chap," slang from at least 1560s, said to be from Romany (Gypsy) cova "that man."
例文
1. The fossils at Dinosaur Cove are embedded in hard sandstones.
恐竜峡谷の化石はすべて硬い砂岩に埋め込まれている。
2.The path dipped down to a sort of cove ，and then it forked in two directions.
この道は下に山あいまで伸びて、そこで分岐した。
3.'This a handy cove ，'says he，at length，'and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop.
「この湾はいい位置にある」と彼はついに口を開いた。The shore line is wooded，olive-green，a pristine cove .
岸辺一帯は林がうっそうと茂っていて、緑がいっぱいで、山の外の小さな入り江だ。
5.'You are at the "Admiral Benbow "，Black Hill Cove ，my good man，'said I.