Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kutą

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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

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 English: cot, cote
      • English: cot, cote
  • Middle Low German: kōte
    • Low German: Kote
      • → German: Kate
• 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

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’”