Re: Hat

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>
> Any chance that word is related to cott, cottage?
> or to Spanish coto "enclosure"?
> I'm in El Salvador, Central America, so I don't access
> to any reference books at all. So pardon my ignorance
>

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/23222
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46170

Since it's of the form TVT where T = unvoiced stop, for it to be
Germanic, it would have to be from a PIE *DVD where D = voiced stop,
which couldn't occur in PIE. Therefore it must be a loan.


Torsten