geminates

> Peter Schriver
> Lost Languages in Northern Europe
>
> Lappish *ku:ti- "fish roe, fish sausage"
> Middle Low German ku:t, ku:te
> Mecklenburg Low German kü(h)t "entrails, weak part of the body"
> Middle Dutch cute, cuut, kiet, kijte < *ku:ti-, *ku:tian
> borrowed
> Modern Icelandic kút-magi "fish stomach"
> kýta "fish stomach, roe"
> Frisian ku:t "roe, calf"
> Macedonian góda
> Vedic gúda:- "bowel"
> gudá "bowel, rectum, vagina"
>
> It is called the language of the geminate since roots from it show

a

> variation "of the final root consonant which may be single or

double,

> voiced or voiceless, and prenasalised". Therefore the following are
> the same root:
> *kunt-
> Middle Low German kunte
> Dutch kont
> English cunt "buttocks, cunnus"
> *kutt-
> Dutch kut "cunnus"
> Bavarian kütze "part of intestines"
> Middle High German kotze "prostitute"
> Middle Low German kutte "cunnus"
>
> to which I'd add
> Danish kød
> Swedish kött
> Old Norse kjo,tv- "meat"
> Proto-Norse *ketwa-, *ketwu- ("of uncertain origin", Dansk
> Etymologisk Ordbog)
>
> (and perhaps Dutch kwaad "evil", Quadi "swamp people"?)
>
> Schrijver seems not have noticed the cognates of Finnish

kusi "urine"

> (s < t) with a cognate missing or dubious in "only one of the
> languages or language family branches [of Fino-Ugric].

Norwegian 'kødd' (a verb the meaning of which I'm not quite certain,
but it certainly belongs here)


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