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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kutą

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

Probably of non-Indo-European origin, but possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota. However, compare Dutch and English hut.[1]

Noun

*kutą n

  1. shed

Inflection
neuter a-stemDeclension of *kutą (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *kutą *kutō
vocative *kutą *kutō
accusative *kutą *kutō
genitive *kutas, *kutis *kutǫ̂
dative *kutai *kutamaz
instrumental *kutō *kutamiz

Descendants
  • Proto-West Germanic:
    • Old Dutch: cota, kota (“little house”)
      • Middle Dutch: cot, cote (“hut, cabin”)
        • Dutch: kot
          • Negerhollands: kot, cot
            • → Virgin Islands Creole: kot (dated)
    • Old English: cot, cote (“cottage, hut; bed-chamber”)
    • Middle Low German: kōte
      • Low German: Kote
  • Old Norse: kot (“cottage, hut”)
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: kott
    • Norwegian Bokmål: kott
    • → Old Northern French: cot, cote (“hut, cottage”)
      • →⇒ Medieval Latin: cotagium
        • → Anglo-Norman: cotage

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “kuta”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 313-14

Further reading
  • Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*kuta-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 313: “n. ‘shed’”
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