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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kǫtati

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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-Slavic

Etymology

Unclear. Per Vasmer, cognate with Old Prussian pokūnst (to cover, to save), pakūnst (to store, to save), kūnti, pokūnti ((he) protects).

Verb

*kǫ̀tati impf [1][2]

  1. to muffle up, to conceal

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: кутати (kutati)
      • Belarusian: ку́таць (kútacʹ) (dialectal)
      • Russian: ку́тать (kútatʹ)
      • Ukrainian: ку́тати (kútaty)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: (съкѫтати (sŭkǫtati))
      Glagolitic: [Term?]
    • Bulgarian: къ́там (kǎ́tam)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: (ску́тати)
      Latin: (skútati)
    • Slovene: skotáti (tonal orthography)

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*kǫtati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 244: “v. ‘muffle up, conceal’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), kǫtati: kǫtajǫ kǫtajetь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:a indhylle, gemme (PR 133)”
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