Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/kota

This Proto-Uralic entry contains reconstructed words 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-Uralic

Etymology

Akin to Proto-Indo-Iranian *kata- (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀-‎ (kata-, “house/home, pit”), Persian کد‎ (kad, “house”)). The direction of loaning is not entirely clear, but most researchers have supported an early loanword from pre-Indo-Iranian into Uralic.

The root may have moreover been a widespread Wanderwort across Eurasia, cf. also e.g. Turkish kodak (“home”), Mongolian хот (khot, “town”), Ainu コタン (kotan, “village”), Tamil குடி (kuṭi, “house, abode, home, family, lineage, town, tenants”), Proto-Germanic *kut-, whence English cot, Dutch kot, German Kate.

Noun

*kota

1. hut, tent, tepee

Descendants

• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: ház
  • Khanty:
    • Eastern: кат (kat)
    • Northern: хат (xat)
• Permic:
  • Komi:
    • Komi-Zyrian: керка (kerka, “house”), вичко (vičko, “church”)
    • Komi-Permyak: керку (kerku, “house”), вичку (vičku, “church”)
  • Udmurt: корка (korka, “house”), вуко (vuko, “mill”)
• Mari: кудо (kudo)
• Mordvinic:
  • Erzya: кудо (kudo)
  • Moksha: куд (kud)
• Samic: *koatē (see there for further descendants)
• Finnic: *kota (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Entry #370 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary. Internet Archive
• Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
• Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000) Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
• Joki, Aulis J. (1973) Uralier und Indogermanen [Uralians and Indo-Europeans] (Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia; 151) (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, →ISBN
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) , “хата”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Trubačóv, Moscow: Progress