Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kǫtati

This Proto-Slavic 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.

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

*kǫ̀tati impf

1. to muffle up, to conceal

• *kǫťa (“hut”)

• 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:

  • Bulgarian: къ́там (kǎ́tam)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: (ску́тати)

    Latin: (skútati)

  • ⇒ Slovene: skotáti (tonal orthography)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ку́тать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*kǫtati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 69