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.

Origin Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gewd- (“to stretch, curve, vault”). Alternatively, of non-Indo-European origin, but possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota. However, compare Dutch and English hut.^[1]

*kutą n

1. tent, stall, shed, hut

• *kutjǭ
  • Old Norse: *kytja
    • ⇒ Old Norse: húskytja

• *kautǭ
  • Proto-West Germanic: *kautā
    • Old Frisian: *kāte
      • Saterland Frisian: Koate
      • ⇒ Old Frisian: kathentol (“fish-toll”)
      • →? Middle Low German: kâte m or f
        • German Low German: Kaat
        • → German: Kate
        • → Dutch: kaat
  • ⇒ Proto-Germanic: *kautijǭ
    • Proto-West Germanic: *kautijā
      • Old English: *ċīete, ċȳte, ċēte, ċīte
        • Middle English: chete
• *kutǭ
  • Proto-West Germanic: *kotā
    • Old English: cote
      • Middle English: cote (merged with descendant of Old English cot)
    • Old Saxon: *kota
      • Middle Low German: kōte, kotte
        • → Middle High German: kote
    • Old Dutch: *kota
      • Middle Dutch: kote
        • Dutch: koot (now regarded as a variant of Dutch kot)
        • ⇒ Middle Dutch: cootkijn

• Proto-West Germanic: *kot
  • Old English: cot
    • Middle English: cot, cote
      • English: cot, cote
      • Scots: cott, cot
  • Old Saxon: *kot
    • Middle Low German: kot, kōt
      • Low German: Kote
  • Old Dutch: cot (“little house”), kot
    • Middle Dutch: kot (“hut, cabin”)
      • Dutch: kot
        • Negerhollands: kot, cot
          • → Virgin Islands Creole: kot (dated)
• 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
    • ⇒ Old French: cotin

• 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’”