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kʾtk'

kʾtk'

Middle Persian

Noun

kʾtk' • ‎(kādag)

  1. game, joke

References

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “kādag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 48
  • Nyberg, H. S. (1974), “kātak”, in A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 116a
  • Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 340, 384
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-15496-4, page 227
  • Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 547

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Iranian *kāta-ka-, from *kāta-, the perfect passive participle of the root *kā(H)- ‎(“to take pleasure, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂- ‎(“to desire, wish”); see there for more.

Alternatively, from the Proto-Iranian root *kāt- ‎(“to roll, turn; to overturn, topple over”).

In any case, cognate with the Old Armenian loanword կատակ ‎(katak, “play, joke”), Sogdian kʾtʾk ‎(“game, play”), Chorasmian kʾt ‎(“game”), Central Kurdish [script needed] ‎(kāya, “game”), Zazaki kay ‎(“game”), Mazanderani کا ‎(kā, “game”).

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