Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *hattuzScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_hattuz
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*kadʰ-to guard, cover, protect, care for*katelosyoung animalcassishelmet*kòšьbasket
nounmasculineu-stemhatOf unclear origin.Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰnú-, from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (‘to guard, cover, protect, care for’), and compared with Latin cassis (‘helmet’), as well as possibly Proto-Slavic *kòšь (‘basket’).However, Kroonen notes that the term looks like a derivative from the accusative plural, *hattuns, of an unattested n-stem noun *haþō, and reconstructs the Proto-Indo-European form as *kHt-nú- instead. He deduces a possible relation to Old High German hadara (‘patch, goat skin’) and Old Norse haðna (‘young goat’), and links these terms to Proto-Italic *katelos (‘young animal’); see there for more.