Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kūtiz

This Proto-Germanic 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-Germanic

Alternative forms

• *kiutiz

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gewd- (“bag, stomach”), from *gew- (“to curve, arch, bulge”).

Noun

*kūtiz f

1. bag
2. stomach
3. gut, entrails, intestines

Inflection

i-stemDeclension of *kūtiz (i-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*kūtiz	*kūtīz
vocative	*kūti	*kūtīz
accusative	*kūtį	*kūtinz
genitive	*kūtīz	*kūtijǫ̂
dative	*kūtī	*kūtimaz
instrumental	*kūtī	*kūtimiz

Related terms

• *keudō
• *kutilǭ

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *kūti, *kiuti
  • Old English: *cȳte, *cȳt
    • Middle English: *cut, *ket, *kit, *kyt
      • ⇒? Middle English: kidenere, kidnere, kideney, kedney (compound with descendant of *neurô)
        • English: kidney
      • >? Scots: cut (“appetite”) (alternatively an alteration of gut)
        • ⇒? Scots: cutpoke, kitpock (“stomach (of a fish)”)
  • >? Old English: ċīete
    • ⇒? Middle English: *chiter
      • ⇒? English: chiterling
        • English: chitterling
        • Scots: chitterlin
      • Scots: chitter
  • Old Saxon: *kūti f, *kūt n
    • Middle Low German: kûte, kût, kü̂te, kü̂t f or n
      • German Low German: Küüt f or n
        • → Saterland Frisian: Küüt m
        • → West Frisian: kût n
  • Old Dutch: *kūti, *kiuti
    • Middle Dutch: cute, cuyte, cuut, cuyt, kiet f or n
      • Dutch: kuit
      • West Flemish: kiete, kiet, kijte
      • → Middle English: kyt, kyte, kytt
• Old Norse: kýta
  • Icelandic: kýta
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kyta
  • Swedish: kut (dialectal)
  • → Middle English: kyte (possibly merged with Middle Dutch cute, kiet)
    • English: kite, kyte (“belly, stomach”) (dialectal)
    • Scots: kyte