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

Origin Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gewd- (“to stretch, curve, vault”). Alternatively, 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.

Noun

*kutą n

1. tent, stall, shed, hut

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

Derived terms

• *kutjǭ
  • Old Norse: *kytja
    • ⇒ Old Norse: húskytja

Related terms

• *kautǭ
  • Proto-West Germanic: *kautā
    • Old Frisian: *kāte
      • Saterland Frisian: Koate
      • ⇒ Old Frisian: kathentol (“fish-toll”)
      • →? Middle Low German: kâte m or f
        • German Low German: Kaat
        • → German: Kate
        • → Dutch: kaat
  • ⇒ Proto-Germanic: *kautijǭ
    • Proto-West Germanic: *kautijā
      • Old English: *ċīete, ċȳte, ċēte, ċīte
        • Middle English: chete
• *kutǭ
  • Proto-West Germanic: *kotā
    • Old English: cote
      • Middle English: cote (merged with descendant of Old English cot)
    • Old Saxon: *kota
      • Middle Low German: kōte, kotte
        • → Middle High German: kote
    • Old Dutch: *kota
      • Middle Dutch: kote
        • Dutch: koot (now regarded as a variant of Dutch kot)
        • ⇒ Middle Dutch: cootkijn

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *kot
  • Old English: cot
    • Middle English: cot, cote
      • English: cot, cote
      • Scots: cott, cot
  • Old Saxon: *kot
    • Middle Low German: kot, kōt
      • Low German: Kote
  • Old Dutch: cot (“little house”), kot
    • Middle Dutch: kot (“hut, cabin”)
      • Dutch: kot
        • Negerhollands: kot, cot
          • → Virgin Islands Creole: kot (dated)
• Old Norse: kot (“cottage, hut”)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kott
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kott
  • → Old Northern French: cot, cote (“hut, cottage”)
    • →⇒ Medieval Latin: cotagium
      • → Anglo-Norman: cotage
        • → Middle English:
          • English: cottage
            • → French: cottage
    • ⇒ Old French: cotin

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’”