kʾtk'

Middle Persian

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Iranian *kāta-ka-, from *kāta-, the perfect passive participle of the root *kā(H)- (“to take pleasure, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂- (“to desire, wish”); see there for more.

Alternatively, from the Proto-Iranian [Term?] root *kāt- (“to roll, turn; to overturn, topple over”).

In any case, cognate with the Old Armenian loanword կատակ (katak, “play, joke”), Sogdian [script needed] (kʾtʾk, “game, play”), Khwarezmian [script needed] (kʾt, “game”), Central Kurdish کایە (kaye, “game”), Zazaki kay (“game”), Mazanderani کا (kā, “game”).

Noun

kʾtk' • (kādag)

1. game, joke

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “kādag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 48
• Nyberg, H. S. (1974) “kātak”, in A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 116a
• Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 340, 384
• Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 227
• Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 547