Reconstruction:Proto-Permic/käć

This Proto-Permic 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-Permic

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Bulgar [Term?], ulitmately from Proto-Turkic *keči (“goat”). Compare Chuvash кач (kač) and Tatar кәҗә (käcä).

The sense "goat" - which is only attested in Udmurt - is either the original meaning, from which the sense "hare" arose akin to dialectal Chuvash кач (kač), or a later semantic loan into Udmurt from a Turkic language.

Alternatively, Sokolov (1992) proposes that this term is an onomatopoeic formation independent from the Turkic terms.

Noun

*käć (stem *käć-)

1. hare
2. ? goat

Declension

Declension of *käć (stem: *käć-)
		singular	plural
nominative		*käć	*käćjas
accusative	indefinite	*käć	*käćjas
	definite	*käćäs	*käćjasäs
instrumental		*käćän	*käćjasän
caritive		*käćtäk	*käćjastäk
consecutive		*käćla	*käćjasla
genitive		*käćlän	*käćjaslän
ablative		*käćliś	*käćjasliś
dative		*käćli	*käćjasli
inessive		*käćin	*käćjasin
elative		*käćiś	*käćjasiś
illative		*käćä	*käćjasä
egressive		*käćśań	*käćjasśań
approximative		*käćlań	*käćjaslań
terminative		*käćäʒ́	*käćjasäʒ́
translative		*käćti	*käćjasti

Descendants

• Komi:
  • Komi-Permyak: кӧч (köć)
  • Komi-Zyrian: кӧч (köć)
• Udmurt: кеч (keć)
  • Beserman: кесь (keś)

References

• Lytkin, V. I., Gulyaev, E. S., editors (1970), “кӧч”, in Краткий этимологический словарь коми языка‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka
• S. V. Sokolov (1992) “К этимологии пермского кеч ~ кӧч «коза, заяц»”, in Пермистика, number 3, pages 130-133