cot
TranslingualEdit
SymbolEdit
cot
Usage notesEdit
The symbol cot is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard, which explicitly deprecates the older symbol ctg.
SynonymsEdit
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (UK, General Australian, Boston) IPA(key): /kɒt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [kʰɒʔ(t)]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): [kʰɔt], [kʰɔʔ]
Audio (Australian) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /kɑt/
- (Indian English) IPA(key): [kɔt], [kɔʈ]
- Homophones: caught (accents with cot–caught merger), court (non-rhotic accents with cot–caught merger and horse–hoarse merger)
- Rhymes: -ɒt
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Hindi खाट (khāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀔𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (khaṭṭā), from Sanskrit खट्वा (khaṭvā, “bedstead”).
NounEdit
cot (plural cots)
- (Canada, US) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
- Synonym: camp bed
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
- Synonym: crib
- (nautical, historical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English cot, cote, from Old English cot and cote (“cot, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutǭ (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), from Scythian (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”)). Cognate to Dutch kot (“student room; small homestead”). Doublet of cote; more distantly related to cottage.
NounEdit
cot (plural cots)
- (archaic) A cottage or small homestead.
- 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W. Griffin, […], →OCLC:
- the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm
- 1790, Jane Austen, ‘Love and Freindship’, Juvenilia:
- One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot.
- 1898, Ethna Carbery, "Roddy McCorley" (poem).
- Oh, see the fleet-foot hosts of men who speed with faces wan / From farmstead and from thresher's cot along the banks of Ban
- A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.
- Synonym: cote
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Etymology 3Edit
From Irish cot, coit (“small boat”), from Proto-Celtic *quontio, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s (“path, road”), related to Gaulish and Latin ponto. Compare the first element of catboat, which could be a borrowing.[1]
NounEdit
cot (plural cots)
- A small, crudely-formed boat.
Etymology 4Edit
From dialectal cot, cote, partly from Middle English cot (“matted wool”), from Old English *cot, *cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“woolen fabric, wool covering”); and partly from Middle English cot, cote (“tunic, coat”), from Old French cote, from the same Germanic source (see English coat). Possibly influenced by English cotton.
Alternative formsEdit
- cote (dialectal)
NounEdit
cot (plural cots)
- A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.
- a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)
- a cot for a sore finger
Etymology 5Edit
Contraction of cot-quean.
NounEdit
cot (plural cots)
- (obsolete) A man who does household work normally associated with women.
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview 2001, p. 347:
- You know, that being an old bachelor, and somewhat of an epicure, he is at home, what the vulgar call a cot; and has laid down his spontoon for the tasting spoon, converted his sword into a carving knife, and his sash into a jelly bag.
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview 2001, p. 347:
ReferencesEdit
- ^ MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “coit”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page 96
AnagramsEdit
AromanianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin cubitum. Compare Daco-Romanian cot.
NounEdit
cot n (plural coati or coate or coturi)
NounEdit
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From acotar.
AdjectiveEdit
cot (feminine cota, masculine plural cots, feminine plural cotes)
- bowed, towards the ground
- 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 6, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
- Reia i reia amb el cap cot, contenint-se a mitges.
- He laughed and laughed with his head down, half restraining himself.
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
cot m (plural cots)
- whetstone
- Synonym: pedra d'esmolar
Further readingEdit
- “cot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Northern KurdishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
cot ?
Old EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutan (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, but possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota.[1]
However, compare Dutch and English hut, as well as Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), Scytho-Sarmatian *kuta, Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cot n (nominative plural cotu)
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DescendantsEdit
- English: cot
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “kuta”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 313-14
PicardEdit
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NounEdit
cot m (plural cots)
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin cubitum, probably through a later Vulgar Latin contracted form *cubtu, perhaps becoming *cout in earlier Romanian. Compare Aromanian cot, Spanish codo; cf. also Albanian kut. Doublet of the neological borrowing cubitus.
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
NounEdit
cot n (plural coate)
DeclensionEdit
NounEdit
cot n (plural coturi)
DeclensionEdit
NounEdit
cot m (plural coți)
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RomanschEdit
NounEdit
cot m (plural cots)
TyapEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- cod, chot, chod
EtymologyEdit
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NounEdit
cot (plural ncot)
WelshEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cot f (plural cotiau)
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MutationEdit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
cot | got | nghot | chot |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
ReferencesEdit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cot”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies