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

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

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