Etümoloogilisi märkmeid (X)
Etymological Notes (X)

Summary/Abstract: Etymologies are suggested for the Estonian words kaugas ’pouch; dial. pocket’, kentsakas ’funny, strange’, klahv ’key (of an instrument)’ and koosu ’dial. grandmother’. Kaugas ’pouch; dial. pocket’ might perhaps be a Latvian loan, however, as the assumed Latvian source word kabata ’pocket’ would have needed a lot of morphological adaptation not demonstrable on dialect material the assumption remains unproven. The word kentsakas ’funny, strange’ originates in the Swedish adjective skämtsam ’facetious’, with an ending adapted by blending it with the Estonian suffix -kas. Klahv derives from the obsolete German word Klave ’key (of an instrument)’. Koosu ’dial. grandmother’ is a German loanword originating in the first component of the compound Großmutter, supplemented with the Estonian diminutive suffix -u.

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