Re: Hat

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>
> Some disjointed facts:

> Kuhn connects Germanic 'hat' and 'hood' (NWBlock a/o-alternation) to
> Latin 'cassis' "helmet", (-tt-/-ss- alternation, also in

Chatti/Hessen).

> Bent Jørgensen: Stednavneordbog
> "
> Hatterrev Kattegat. 1568 Hattes reff. FL snarest sb. hat, EL sb.

rev.

> "Det hatteformede rev". Sydøst for Hatterrev ligger Hatter Barn, ...
> [The -er suffix is anomalous in Danish]
> ...
> Kassebølle Lang. 1426 Kasebølæ. FL sb. glda. kasi 'dynge' [heap].
> ...
> Kassø Åh. 1436 Casse. [no less than 69 mounds in this parish]
> ...
> Kastbjerg Djur., Rand. *1334 Kasbiergh (Rand.), 1442 Kasebregh
> (Rand.), 1455 Kasebiærgh (Djur.). FL snarest sb. kase 'dynge [heap],
> opdynget bunke (især af møg, affald)' , ...[corresponding to?] Sw.
> vårdkas 'varde, bavn' [beacon],
> "
>
> Kuhn assigned *katt-/*kass- to a Germanic substrate, which then

might

> be the same as the Saami substrate (or related). But why h-, then,
> unless the Germani on arriving in Scandinavia changed the ka- of a
> recognizable cognate to ha-?
>
>
> Torsten

Romanian cãciulã /c&c^ul&/ 'hat' / Alb kësulë 'id.

should belong here too...

and if so, this is more likely an IE-word rather than a Germanic
substrate one.

Marius