kē̆ t-, kot-

    kē̆ t-, kot-

    English meaning: dwelling space

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Wohnraum” (originally “Erdloch as Wohngrube”?)

    Material: Av. kata- m. “ chamber, Vorratskammer, Keller od. likewise” (: Goth. hēÞjō), Pers. kad “house”, from which finn. kota; but about O.N. kot ‘schlechte cottage”, kytja “cottage”, O.E. cot “cottage, chamber “ etc. see above S. 393 f.; Goth. hēÞjō “ chamber “; Church Slavic kotьcь “cella, nest” etc.; whether “Wohngrube, hole in the earth” die original meaning, wũrden sich anreihen lassen: maybe Alb. kotec “animal shelter” (contaminated by Slavic lang.), also Alb. (*kotu-) katua ‘stable, basement, cellar”, nasalized katun, katund “house, village” [common Alb. shift n > nd] not from Ital. cantone “corner”. Gk. κοτύλη, κότυλος “Hohlung”, further “hohles vessel, bowl, goblet”; Lat. catīnus “eine Schũssel zum Speisenauftragen” (Dimin. catillus, out of it Goth. katils, dt. Kessel, out of it again O.Bulg. kotъlъ, Lith. kãtilas) = O.E. heden “Kochgeschirr”.

    References: WP. I 383 f., WH. I 176, 182.