Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/kota

This Proto-Uralic 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 akin to Proto-Iranian *kátah (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “house/home, pit”), Persian کده (kade, “house”)), in which case it is a loan in one direction or the other, but the direction is not entirely clear. Many researchers have supported an early loanword from pre-Indo-Iranian into Uralic, but this is not certain, as the Iranian word has no known cognates in Indo-European, not even Indo-Aryan. The similarity may simply be a coincidence.

Moreover, the root may have been a widespread Wanderwort across Eurasia; compare Abkhaz ақыҭа (akəta), Azerbaijani qutan (“(dialectal) dugout for lambs”), Proto-Mongolic *kotan (Mongolian хот (xot, “town”)), Turkish kodak (“(dialectal) home”), Ainu コタン (kotan, “village”), Japanese 鶏 (kutakake, kudakake, “rooster”, hybrid Ainu-Japanese word, literally “house rooster”), Tamil குடி (kuṭi, “house, abode, home, family, lineage, town, tenants”). Borrowings from Iranian (specifically Scythian) include Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutǭ (whence English cot, Dutch kot, German Kate) and Proto-Slavic *xata (“house”).

*kota

1. hut, tent, teepee

• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: ház
  • Khanty:
    • Eastern Khanty: кат (kat)
    • Northern Khanty: хат (hat)
• Permic:
  • Komi:
    • ⇒ Komi-Zyrian: керка (kerka, “house”), вичко (vićko, “church”)
    • ⇒ Komi-Permyak: керку (kerku, “house”), вичку (vićku, “church”)
  • ⇒ Udmurt: корка (korka, “house”), вуко (vuko, “mill”)
• Proto-Mari: *kudə (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *kudə
  • Erzya: кудо (kudo)
  • Moksha: куд (kud)
• Proto-Samic: *koatē (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *kota (see there for further descendants)

• Entry #370 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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