Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kotъ

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.

Probably from Latin cattus or Proto-Germanic *kattuz (see those entries and cat for further etymology).

*kòtъ m^[1]

1. cat
2. tomcat, male cat

• *maca (“cat, pussy”)
• *stьbľь (“wildcat”)

• *kotę
• *kotica
• *koťь
  • *koťerъ / *koťurъ
  • *koťьka
• *kotъka
• *koty (possibly)
• *kotьjь

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: котъ (kotŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: котъ (kot)
      • Belarusian: кот (kot)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: кот (kot) (regional, rare)
      • Ukrainian: кіт (kit)
    • Russian: кот m (kot, “cat”)
      • ⇒ Russian: ко́тко (kótko, “kitten”) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: кот (kot) (archaic, dialectal)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: кота́к (koták); кута́к (kuták) (dialectal)
  • Old Serbo-Croatian: kot (rare)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: kot
    • Czech: kot (dialectal)
  • Old Polish: kot
    • Polish: kot (“cat; hare”)
      • ⇒ Polish: kotek (“kitty, little male cat”)
  • Old Slovak: *kot
    • Pannonian Rusyn: кот (kot)
    • Slovak: kot (Eastern Slovak, dialectal)
      • ⇒ Slovak: kotena f (“female cat”)
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: kòt
    • Slovincian: kôt
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: kót
    • Upper Sorbian: kót

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кот”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “кот”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 435
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*kotъ I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 209