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E 0193 COT
The word " cot " is of Germanic origin .
H 0517 ל ת
כ
Concept of root :
divide by wall
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Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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ל ת כ
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kotèl
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dividing wall
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Related English words
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cot
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Comparison between European words and
Hebrew
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Languages
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Words
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Pronunciation
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English meanings
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Similarity in roots
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Hebrew
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ל ת כ
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kotèl
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dividing wall
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k . t . l
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English
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cot
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cot
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c . t
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Dutch
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kot
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kot
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pen, bedstead
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k . t
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Proto-Semitic *KUTEL --- *KOT Indo-European
The Hebrew word "kotèl" is well-known with the adjective "ma’aravi", as it stands for the famous "Western Wall" in Jerusalem. In fact "erev" means "evening" and "ma’ariv" is where the sun stands in the evening, the West.
Note:
- Hebrew "kotel" sounds like a present participle of a verb "*katal", but such a verb does not exist. It has an Aramaic companion that sounds "ketal". Both Aramaic and Hebrew have a root "Q TH L", that means "to kill", especially used for battles in war, with "sedé qethel" meaning "battle-field", litterally "killing-field". There is no detectible link.
It must be noted that in modern Hebrew a version " ק ת ל , qotel = wall" is used. But this has no grammatical basis.
One may see a better connection with another root, "K T R", subject of the next entry, with number E 136 (Hebrew 0518) , that also deals with a kind of separation, specifically "encircling". The conclusion seems to be that the combination "K T" is used as a basic indication of separating and closing off spaces.
And this is where the similarity with the Dutch word comes in. The English word only in part has remained on the same track as the Dutch one and has found its way more towards somewhat different meanings. Both languages know the older version "cote" without significant differences in meaning.
English has, already in Middle English, developed "cottage" on the basis of "cot".
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- Dutch "kot" does not find many sisters but has taken various meanings. The basic one is that of a separate place, divided from others by a constructed separation, that may be low or high. In practice there is a "varkenskot" for pigs, with a low wooden separation, a "schapenkot" for sheep , a "kot" for prisoners, with of course strong walls, a "kot" like a bedstead to sleep and a "kot" as a very poor dwelling. And there are more, mostly newer ones.
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- Proto-Semitic This root is also seen in Aramaic "כ ת ל א , kutlà", which gives a narrow basis for a hypothesis for Proto-Semitic, that may have had "*כ ת ל , K T L". Akkadian "kutallu = back side " may be related. In our comparison we propose "*KUTEL".
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- Proto-Germanic The word "cot" and sister words are found in several more languages in one or more of the meanings we saw for Dutch "kot". Old English "cot (also cott, cyte)" says "cottage, chamber, den, cell, cubicle". Modern English makes some distinction between "cot" and "cote". Old Norse "kot" had the same meanings. A "cottager" in Old English was a "cotsetla" and in Middle Dutch a "coter", today in Dutch "keuter". This word is little used, except in the combination "keuterboer = very small farmer". Swedish spells "kåta=kota" . Proto-Germanic "*K O T-" is probable.
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- Indo European . Regarding the etymology of "cot" we recall that there are many related meanings, from hut to bedstead , from small house to shed . Important is that the word is found in Hindi "khat", Prakrit "khatta" and Old Indian "khatva". But surprising is to find in Tamil as the word for "bedstead" a "kattil" with a root "K.T.L" . We know nothing of Tamil and the L may have different origin from our Hebrew L in Kotel , but there is a clear similarity between Indo European and Semitic here . For Indo-European we may hypothesize "*K O T-".
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| Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 02/11/2012 at 16.41.53 |
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