Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kattuz
Appearance
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; possible Wanderwort[1] of obscure ultimate origin.[2][3] Cognate with and traditionally taken as borrowed from Latin cattus (“cat”);[4] see there for more. Kroonen suggests, on the basis of variable reflexes within Germanic, a derivation through Uralic of Proto-Uralic *käďwä (“female (of a fur animal)”).[5]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]*kattuz m
Inflection
[edit]u-stemDeclension of *kattuz (u-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *kattuz | *kattiwiz | |
vocative | *kattu | *kattiwiz | |
accusative | *kattų | *kattunz | |
genitive | *kattauz | *kattiwǫ̂ | |
dative | *kattiwi | *kattumaz | |
instrumental | *kattū | *kattumiz |
Derived terms
[edit]- *kattilingaz
- *kattīną
- *kattīnaz (adjective)
- *kattuzô
Descendants
[edit]Feminine forms can be found at *kattǭ.
References
[edit]- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Katze”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 362
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Katze”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 362
- ^ Huehnergard, John (2007 December 26) “Qitta: Arabic Cats”, in Beatrice Gruendler, editor, Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms[1], BRILL, →ISBN, page 414; republished as Michael Cooperson, editor, (Please provide a date or year)
- ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 73
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*kattōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Categories:
- Proto-Germanic terms derived from Latin
- Proto-Germanic terms derived from Afroasiatic languages
- Proto-Germanic terms with unknown etymologies
- Proto-Germanic terms borrowed from Latin
- Proto-Germanic terms derived from Proto-Uralic
- Proto-Germanic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Proto-Germanic lemmas
- Proto-Germanic nouns
- Proto-Germanic masculine nouns
- Proto-Germanic u-stem nouns
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