Talk:kutija

Kutija is the same as kuća < kutja as well as kut (angle). Your etymology is absurd. Turk. kutu is most surely from Slavic kutija.— This unsigned comment was added by 202.9.233.147 (talk).

And the Persian word too? You think it more likely that ancient Serbs donated a word to ancient Turks, who then loaned the word into Classical Persian? --EncycloPetey 03:53, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Since the word is related to other SLAVIC words such as kut and kuca I dont see why not? Besides by what logic is it more likely to be that the Slavs and Persians the word from Turkish and not the other way around. Persian, like Slavic is an Indo-European language while turkish isnt (hence persian and slavic words could be cognate) so I dont see why your sarcastic question is anything but true?— This unsigned comment was added by 202.9.233.147 (talk).

Common Slavic lexemes kut ("angle"), and kuća ("house") have absolutely nothing to do with South-Slavic-only kutija ("box") except for the vague phonetic similarity. Ottoman Turkish kutu itself is in turn borrowed from modern Greek κουτί (koutí). --Ivan Štambuk 13:47, 5 September 2008 (UTC)