kät-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kat"

Tocharian A

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *kät- (whence also Tocharian B kät-), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- (“to split, scatter”). Cognate with English scatter, Lithuanian kedėti (“to burst”), and many other words in the IE family.

Verb

kät-

1. to strew, scatter, sow (seeds)

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *kät- (whence also Tocharian A kät-), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- (“to split, scatter”). Cognate with English scatter, Lithuanian kedėti (“to burst”), and many other words in the IE family.

Verb

kät-

1. to strew, scatter, sow (seeds)

Further reading

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “kät-”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 166-167