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