Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kotьcь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Diminutive of an earlier *kotvь, *kotъ (u-stem) + *-ьcь. If native in origin, then may be a deverbial noun from Proto-Slavic *kotati (“to fold, to wrap”). Possibly distantly akin to Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “room, hut”), Old English heaþor (“enclosure, jail”), Ancient Greek κοτύλη (kotúlē, “cup, pint”). Compared in the past with Old Norse kot (“cottage”), Middle Low German kote (“ramshackles”) (presumably from Proto-Germanic *kutą); however, nowadays, relation usually dismissed.
If an orginal meaning “enclosure, interlacement” is presumed, then likely related to Proto-Slavic *košь (“basket”), *košara (“pen, sheepfold”).
Further resembling various wandering words throughout Eurasia: Proto-Uralic *kota (“hut”), Proto-Mongolic *kotan (“town”) (whence Mongolian хот (xot)), Turkish kodak (“shelter, home”).
Noun
*kotьcь m[1]
- pen, paddock, cottage, pigsty
- Synonym: *xlěvъ
Declension
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *kotьcь | *kotьca | *kotьci |
Accusative | *kotьcь | *kotьca | *kotьcę̇ |
Genitive | *kotьca | *kotьcu | *kotьcь |
Locative | *kotьci | *kotьcu | *kotьcixъ |
Dative | *kotьcu | *kotьcema | *kotьcemъ |
Instrumental | *kotьcьmь, *kotьcemь* | *kotьcema | *kotьci |
Vocative | *kotьče | *kotьca | *kotьci |
Derived terms
- *kotьčina (“pigsty”)
Related terms
- *koty (“anchor”)
- *kotuxъ, *katuxъ (“pen, fold”)
- *kotulь (“turn, circle”)
- *koterъ, *kotora (“enclosed area in farm, fold”)
- *koťurь (“splice, knob”)
- *kotoma (“interlacing”)
- *košara (“cottage”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: коте́ц (kotéc) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: коте́ць (kotécʹ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: котьць (kotĭcĭ)
- Bulgarian: коте́ц (kotéc)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ко̀тац
- Latin: kòtac
- Slovene: kótǝc (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: kotec
- Old Polish: kociec
- Polish: kojec
- Ukrainian: ко́єць (kójecʹ)
- Polish: kojec
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “коте́ц”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*kotьcь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 214
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1979), “котец”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 675
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*kotьcь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 241: “m. jo”