Reconstruction:Proto-Permic/käć

This Proto-Permic 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-Permic

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Bulgar [Term?], ulitmately from Proto-Turkic *keči (“goat”). Compare Chuvash кач (kač) and Tatar кәҗә (käcä).

The sense "goat" - which is only attested in Udmurt - is either the original meaning, from which the sense "hare" arose akin to dialectal Chuvash кач (kač), or a later semantic loan into Udmurt from a Turkic language.

Alternatively, Sokolov (1992) proposes that this term is an onomatopoeic formation independent from the Turkic terms.

Noun

*käć (stem *käć-)

hare
? goat

Descendants

Old Komi: *𐍚𐍩𐍤 (*koč)
- Komi-Permyak: кӧч (köcʹ)
- Komi-Zyrian: кӧч (köcʹ)
Udmurt: кеч (keć)

References

Lytkin, V. I., Gulyaev, E. S., editors (1970), “кӧч”, in Краткий этимологический словарь коми языка [Brief Etymological Dictionary of the Komi Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka
S. V. Sokolov (1992), “К этимологии пермского кеч ~ кӧч «коза, заяц»”, in Пермистика, issue 3, pages 130-133