catt

== Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *kattu, from Proto-Germanic *kattuz. Cognate with Old Saxon katto, Old Norse kǫttr, Old High German kazzo. A related word also existed in the Germanic languages with the feminine gender, represented in Old English by catte. The word appears to be related to Late Latin cattus as well as to similar words in the Slavic and Celtic languages, but the ultimate source is uncertain. See cat for more. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɑtt/, [kɑt] Rhymes: -ɑtt === Noun === catt m cat ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: ==== Coordinate terms ==== catte ==== Derived terms ==== *cattes minte ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: cat, catt, catte, cate, kat, katte, kaatEnglish: catEnglish: (Ottawa-Valley) ciattScots: catYola: kaudès, kaudes, kauddès (plural) == Old Irish == === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *kattos, either borrowed from or cognate with Latin cattus, which is possibly from Afroasiatic, but see cat for more. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkat̪/ === Noun === catt m (genitive caitt) cat c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 10 ==== Inflection ==== ==== Descendants ==== Irish: cat Manx: kayt Scottish Gaelic: cat ⇒ Middle Irish: caittín === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “catt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language