Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kotьcь

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

Diminutive of an earlier *kotvь, *kotъ (u-stem) +‎ *-ьcь. If native in origin, then may be a deverbial noun from Proto-Slavic *kotati (“to fold, to wrap”). Possibly distantly akin to Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “room, hut”), Old English heaþor (“enclosure, jail”), Ancient Greek κοτύλη (kotúlē, “cup, pint”). Compared in the past with Old Norse kot (“cottage”), Middle Low German kote (“ramshackles”) (presumably from Proto-Germanic *kutą); however, nowadays, relation usually dismissed. Pokorny derives all of these from a tentative Proto-Indo-European *kot- (“dwelling space”).

If an orginal meaning “enclosure, interlacement” is presumed, then likely related to Proto-Slavic *košь (“basket”), *košara (“pen, sheepfold”).

Further resembling various wandering words throughout Eurasia: Proto-Uralic *kota (“hut”), Proto-Mongolic *kotan (“town”) (whence Mongolian хот (xot)), Turkish kodak (“shelter, home”).

Noun

*kotьcь m

1. pen, paddock, cottage, pigsty

   Synonym: *xlěvъ

Declension

Declension of *kotьcь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kotьcь	*kotьca	*kotьci
genitive	*kotьca	*kotьcu	*kotьcь
dative	*kotьcu	*kotьcema	*kotьcemъ
accusative	*kotьcь	*kotьca	*kotьcę̇
instrumental	*kotьcьmь, *kotьcemь*	*kotьcema	*kotьci
locative	*kotьci	*kotьcu	*kotьcixъ
vocative	*kotьče	*kotьca	*kotьci

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

• *kotьčina (“pigsty”)

Related terms

• *koty (“anchor”)
• *kotuxъ, *katuxъ (“pen, fold”)
• *kotulь (“turn, circle”)
• *koterъ, *kotora (“enclosed area in farm, fold”)
• *koťurь (“splice, knob”)
• *kotoma (“interlacing”)
• *košara (“cottage”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: коте́ц (kotéc) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: коте́ць (kotécʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Church Slavonic: котьць (kotĭcĭ)
  • Bulgarian: коте́ц (kotéc)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ко̀тац

    Latin script: kòtac

  • Slovene: kótǝc (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: kotec
    • Czech: kotec
  • Old Polish: kojec, kociec
    • Polish: kojec
      • → Ukrainian: ко́єць (kójecʹ)
  • Slovak: kotec (dialectal)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “коте́ц”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*kotьcь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 214
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “котец”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 675