Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/kota

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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.

Proto-Uralic

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Etymology

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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.[1]

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 (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).

Noun

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*kota

  1. hut, tent, teepee

Descendants

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  • Ugric:
    • Hungarian: ház
    • Khanty:
  • Permic:
  • Proto-Mari: *kudə (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Mordvinic: *kudə
  • Proto-Samic: *koatē (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Finnic: *kota (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

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  • Entry #370 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
  • Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
  • Joki, Aulis J. (1973) Uralier und Indogermanen [Uralians and Indo-Europeans] (Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia; 151) (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, →ISBN
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хата”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  1. ^ Junttila, Santeri, Kallio, Petri, Holopainen, Sampsa, Kuokkala, Juha, Pystynen, Juho, editors (2020–), “kota”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja[1] (in Finnish), retrieved 2022-11-29