Re: Hat

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, 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.

Kuhn convinced me that Germanic gemination is a substrate-induced
phenomenon (thus Kluge's law doesn't exist), but in such detail that
I've had to upload the whole article in the files section, instead of
trying to condense it into a posting. In German, unfortunately.


Torsten