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Basque
Etymology
From Arabic كُتُب (kutub), plural of كِتَاب (kitāb, “letter, book, piece of writing”).[1] Semantically, the "amulet" sense comes from the practice of carrying texts in a cloth pendant, with the other senses developing later from it.[2] Doublet of gutun (“letter”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
kutun (comparative kutunago, superlative kutunen, excessive kutunegi)
- dear, darling
- favorite, preferred (referring to children)
Declension
Noun
kutun inan or anim
- (inanimate) amulet
- (inanimate, Christianity) scapular
- (inanimate) pincushion
- (animate) dear, darling
- (animate) favorite, preferred child
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ “gutun” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk
- ^ Luis Michelena (1964) Sobre el pasado de la lengua vasca, San Sebastián: Auñamendi, page 128
Further reading
- “kutun”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
- “kutun”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
Finnish
Noun
kutun
- genitive singular of kuttu
Anagrams
Turkish
Noun
kutun
- second-person singular possessive of kutu