Proto-IE: *kaiw-
Meaning: pit, hole
Old Indian: kévaṭa- m. `cave, hollow'
Old Greek: LS 858: kái̯adas, -ọ̄ dor. a m. 'a pit or underground cavern in Sparta, into which state-prisoners or their corpses were thrown' Th., Paus; kai̯átas, kai̯étas Eust. 1478.45; kai̯etós m. 'fissure produced by earthquake' Str. 8.5.7.; Lakedái̯mona kaietáessan 'full of hollows or abysses' (read by Zenod. for kētṓessan in Od. 4.1.; boeot. kaiéta = kalamínthē Hsch., kai̯étas in Apoll. Lex. s.v. kētṓessan; gen.pl. kai̯atō̂n Anon. Lond. 36.57 [kái̯ata Hsch. doesn't exist!]
Russ. meaning: яма
