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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kattu

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kattuz.

Noun

*kattu m

cat[1]
Synonym: *kattā

Inflection

u-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kattu
Genitive	*kattō
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kattu	kattiwi, kattō
Accusative	*kattu	*kattū
Genitive	*kattō	*kattiwō
Dative	kattiwi, kattō	*kattum
Instrumental	*kattu	*kattum

Related terms

*kataʀō

Descendants

Old English: catt
- Middle English: cat, catt, catte, cate; kat, katte, kaat
  - English: cat
  - Scots: cat
  - Yola: kaudès, kauddès, kaudes (plural)
Old Saxon: katto
Old High German: kazzo

References

Miller, D. Gary (2012 June 13) “Early loanwords from Latin and Greek”, in External Influences on English: From its Beginnings to the Renaissance, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 4.6, page 77.

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