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This Proto-Slavic 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.
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *kotъ (“cat”) + *-ę.
Noun
*kotę̀ n
- kitten
Declension
Declension of *kotę (nt-stem, accent paradigm b)
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singular
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dual
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plural
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| nominative
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*kotę
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*kotę̀ti
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*kotę̀tā
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| genitive
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*kotę̀te
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*kotę̀tu
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*kotę̀tъ
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| dative
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*kotę̀ti
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*kotę̀tьma
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*kotę̀tьmъ
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| accusative
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*kotę
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*kotę̀ti
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*kotę̀tā
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| instrumental
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*kotę̀tьmь
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*kotę̀tьma
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*kotę̀tȳ
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| locative
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*kotę̀te
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*kotę̀tu
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*kotę̀tьxъ
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| vocative
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*kotę
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*kotę̀ti
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*kotę̀tā
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Descendants
- East Slavic:
- ⇒ Belarusian: кацяня́ (kacjanjá), кацянё (kacjanjó)
- Ukrainian: котя́ (kotjá)
- ⇒ Ukrainian: котеня́ (kotenjá)
- Middle Russian: котѧ (kotja) (18ᵗʰ c.)
- ⇒ Russian: котёнок (kotjónok); котеня́ (kotenjá) (dialectal)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: ко́те́ (kóté)
- Macedonian: коте (kote)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: коче; ко̏те (dialectal)
- Latin script: koče; kȍte (dialectal)
- ⇒ Cyrillic script: кочета
- ⇒ Latin script: kočeta
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: kotě; kótě
- Czech: kotě; kůtě (dialectal)
- Old Polish: kocię
- Slovak: koča; koce (dialectal)
- ⇒ Slovak: kočiatko; kotiatka (dialectal)
- Slovincian: kôcã
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*kotę”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 203