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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kotъ

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

Probably from Latin cattus or Proto-Germanic *kattuz (see those entries and cat for further etymology).

Noun

*kòtъ m[1]

  1. cat
  2. tomcat, male cat

Declension
Declension of *kòtъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *kòtъ *kotà *kotì
genitive *kotà *kotù *kòtъ
dative *kotù *kotòma *kotòmъ
accusative *kòtъ *kotà *kotỳ
instrumental *kotъ̀mь, *kotòmь* *kotòma *kòty
locative *kotě̀ *kotù *kòtěxъ
vocative *kote *kotà *kotì
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

See also

Derived terms

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: котъ (kotŭ, “cat (house cat); tomcat”)
      • Old Ruthenian: котъ (kot)
        • Belarusian: кот (kot)
        • Carpathian Rusyn: кот (kot) (regional, rare)
        • Ukrainian: кіт (kit)
      • Russian: кот m (kot, “cat”)
        • ⇒ Russian: ко́тко (kótko, “kitten”) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: кот (kot, “cat”) (archaic, dialectal)
      • ⇒ Bulgarian: кота́к (koták, “cat”); кута́к (kuták) (dialectal)
    • Old Serbo-Croatian: kot (“cat”) (rare)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: kot
      • Czech: kot (“cat”) (dialectal)
    • Kashubian: kòt
    • Old Polish: kot (“cat”), Kot (“surname​ (14th cent.)”)
      • Polish: kot (“cat; (dial.) hare”)
        • ⇒ Polish: kotek (“kitty, little male cat”)
    • Slovak: kot (“cat”) (Eastern Slovak, dialectal)
      • ⇒ Slovak: kotena f (“female cat”)
    • Slovincian: kôt
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: kót (“cat”)
      • Upper Sorbian: kót

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кот”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “кот”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 435
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*kotъ I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 209

References
  1. Olander, Thomas (2001) “kotъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b hankat (PR 134)”
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