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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kutjaną

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

Possibly related to *ketwą (meat). Also compare *kwetwą (flesh). For possible sense development, compare Latin carō (meat), which probably was originally "a piece of meat cut off".

Verb

*kutjaną

  1. to cut

Inflection

Descendants

  • Old Norse: kytja, kutta

Further reading

  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) “ketwa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 286
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