#small pit-house

• Tiny pit-house — An affectionate, popular, or regional diminutive for 'argea' or 'argelă'; a tiny pit-house, a low-scale semi-subterranean shelter, or a small underground room used for storing foodstuffs or as an infantile play space in rural environments. In a structural-ethnographic sense, the term reflects the tendency of vernacular dialects to apply hypocoristic suffixes to describe miniature constructions or intimate household outbuildings.