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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kǫtati

This Proto-Slavic 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-Slavic

Etymology

Unclear. Per Vasmer, cognate with Old Prussian pokūnst (to cover, to save), pakūnst (to store, to save), kūnti, pokūnti ((he) protects).

Verb

*kǫ̀tati impf[1][2]

  1. to muffle up, to conceal

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: кутати (kutati)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: (съкѫтати (sŭkǫtati))
      Glagolitic: [Term?]
    • Bulgarian: къ́там (kǎ́tam)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: (ску́тати)
      Latin: (skútati)
    • Slovene: skotáti (tonal orthography)

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ку́тать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*kǫtati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 69

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kǫtati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 244:v. ‘muffle up, conceal’
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “kǫtati: kǫtajǫ kǫtajetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:a indhylle, gemme (PR 133)
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