Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/koktu
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This Proto-Finnic 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-Finnic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from Proto-Finno-Permic *koktɜ[1] (compare Udmurt кӧт (köt, “belly, stomach, body cavity”), кӧто (köto, “pregnant”), Komi-Permyak кӧта (köta, “pregnant (of cow)”)). If the Permic cognates are related, a metathesis may have occurred in them.[2]
Noun
[edit]*koktu[3]
Descendants
[edit]- Estonian: kõht
- Finnish: kohtu
- Karelian: kohtu
- Livvi: kohtu
- ⇒ Ludian: kohtuine (“heavy”), kohtuštuda (“to become pregnant”)
- Veps: koht
- Võro: kõtt
- ⇒ Votic: kõhuz
- → Lule Sami: skoahto
- → Northern Sami: goaŧŧu
References
[edit]- ^ Entry #1327 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ Metsäranta, Niklas. Päivitettyjä permiläisiä etymologioita ja rinnastuksia. SUSA/JSFOu 96, 2017. p. 227
- ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–), “*koktu”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary][1] (in Finnish)
Further reading
[edit]- “kõht”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Erkki Itkonen, Ulla-Maija Kulonen, editors (1992–2000), “kohtu1”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words][2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN