ketta

== Faroese == === Etymology === From Old Norse ketta. See also køttur. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰɛʰtːa] Rhymes: -ɛʰtːa === Noun === ketta f (genitive singular kettu, plural kettur) cat ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (rare) kattur, køttur ==== Derived terms ==== === References === == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *kattijǭ, *kattǭ (“female cat”). === Noun === ketta f (genitive kettu) a female cat Synonym: kisa a giantess ==== Declension ==== ==== Coordinate terms ==== kausi, kisi ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: ketta Faroese: ketta Norwegian: kjette, kjetta → Danish: kætte, kjætte (Norway) Norwegian Bokmål: kjette Old Swedish: kætta Swedish: katta === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “ketta”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive