Re: Hat

See also English cassock --and I forget if it's <-s->
or <-ss-> in Latin
but in any case, casula is from where? Celtic? if so,
< *kas-?
I'm thinking Celtic because /o/ > /a/
but I'm guessing and someone will enlighten me


--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2007-10-16 18:21, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > Can 'hat' be traced back to a PIE *kaT-T- , as is
> the case of Latin
> > cassis and PAlb. /kac^ula/ ?
>
> I wonder if MLat. casula 'cloak with a cowl' (hence
> kos(^)ulja or the
> like for 'shirt' in various Slavic languages)
> belongs here rather than
> being a diminutive of <casa>. I mean it could have
> been a substratal
> word of the Balkan area borrowed into Vulgar Latin,
> perhaps with 'hood'
> as the original meaning. I'd put my money on a
> Klugean reconstruction of
> the Gmc. "hat" word as *kaT-nó-, in which case
> *kaT-tó- would be related
> but not quite the same.
>
> Piotr
>
>
>

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