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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kotъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Probably from Latin cattus or Proto-Germanic *kattuz (see those entries and cat for further etymology).
Noun
*kòtъ m[1]
- cat
- tomcat, male cat
Declension
Declension of *kòtъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *kòtъ | *kotà | *kotì |
Accusative | *kòtъ | *kotà | *kotỳ |
Genitive | *kotà | *kotù | *kòtъ |
Locative | *kotě̀ | *kotù | *kòtěxъ |
Dative | *kotù | *kotòma | *kotòmъ |
Instrumental | *kotъ̀mь, *kotòmь* | *kotòma | *kòty |
Vocative | *kote | *kotà | *kotì |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
See also
- *maca (“cat, pussy”)
- *stьbľь (“wildcat”)
Derived terms
- *kotę
- *kotica
- *koťь
- *koťerъ / *koťurъ
- *koťьka
- *kotъka
- *koty (possibly)
- *kotьjь
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: котъ (kotŭ, “cat (house cat); tomcat”)
- Old Ruthenian: котъ (kot)
- Belarusian: кот (kot)
- Rusyn: кот (kot) (regional, rare)
- Ukrainian: кіт (kit)
- Russian: кот m (kot, “cat”)
- ⇒ Russian: ко́тко (kótko, “kitten”) (dialectal)
- Old Ruthenian: котъ (kot)
- Old East Slavic: котъ (kotŭ, “cat (house cat); tomcat”)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: кот (kot, “cat”) (archaic, dialectal)
- ⇒ Bulgarian: кота́к (koták, “cat”); кута́к (kuták) (dialectal)
- Old Serbo-Croatian: kot (“cat”) (rare)
- Bulgarian: кот (kot, “cat”) (archaic, dialectal)
- 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”)
- Polish: kot (“cat; (dial.) hare”)
- Slovak: kot (“cat”) (Eastern Slovak, dialectal)
- ⇒ Slovak: kotena f (“female cat”)
- Slovincian: kot (“cat; hare”), kœt, kʉ̀ɵ̯t, kᵘ̯ot; kùɵ̯tk (“kitty”)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: kót (“cat”)
- Upper Sorbian: kót
- Old Czech: kot
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “кот”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “кот”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – пантомима), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 435
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*kotъ I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 209
References
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “kotъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b hankat (PR 134)”