Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kotę

This Proto-Slavic 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-Slavic

Etymology

From *kotъ (“cat”) +‎ *-ę.

Noun

*kotę̀ n

1. kitten

Declension

Declension of *kotę (nt-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kotę	*kotę̀ti	*kotę̀tā
genitive	*kotę̀te	*kotę̀tu	*kotę̀tъ
dative	*kotę̀ti	*kotę̀tьma	*kotę̀tьmъ
accusative	*kotę	*kotę̀ti	*kotę̀tā
instrumental	*kotę̀tьmь	*kotę̀tьma	*kotę̀tȳ
locative	*kotę̀te	*kotę̀tu	*kotę̀tьxъ
vocative	*kotę	*kotę̀ti	*kotę̀tā

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • ⇒ Belarusian: кацяня́ (kacjanjá), кацянё (kacjanjó)
  • Ukrainian: котя́ (kotjá)
    • ⇒ Ukrainian: котеня́ (kotenjá)
  • Middle Russian: котѧ (kotja) (18ᵗʰ c.)
    • ⇒ Russian: котёнок (kotjónok); котеня́ (kotenjá) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ко́те́ (kóté)
  • Macedonian: коте (kote)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: коче; ко̏те (dialectal)

    Latin script: koče; kȍte (dialectal)

    ⇒ Cyrillic script: кочета

    ⇒ Latin script: kočeta

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: kotě; kótě
    • Czech: kotě; kůtě (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Czech: koťátko
  • Old Polish: kocię
    • Polish: kocię
      • ⇒ Polish: kociątko
  • Slovak: koča; koce (dialectal)
    • ⇒ Slovak: kočiatko; kotiatka (dialectal)
  • Slovincian: kôcã

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*kotę”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 203