kǫttr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kattuz (“cat”).

Pronunciation

  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈkɒtːr̩/

Noun

kǫttr m (genitive kattar, plural kettir)

  1. cat
    • Magus saga jarls 19, in 1884, G. Cederschiöld, Fornsögur Suðrlanda. Lund, page 34:
      […] enn annat var morautt, sem i kauttum.
      […] but the other [eye] was yellow-brown, as if that of a cat.

Declension

Declension of kǫttr (strong u-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative kǫttr kǫttrinn kettir kettirnir
accusative kǫtt kǫttinn kǫttu kǫttuna
dative ketti kettinum kǫttum kǫttunum
genitive kattar kattarins katta kattanna

Derived terms

  • fjalakǫttr (“mousetrap”)
  • hreysikǫttr (“ermine”)
  • kattarauga (“forget-me-not”)
  • kattarrófa (“a cat's tail”)
  • kattartunga (“sea plantain”)
  • trékǫttr (“mousetrap”)

Descendants

  • Faroese: køttur
  • Icelandic: köttur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: katt
  • Old Swedish: katter
  • Danish: kat
    • Norwegian Bokmål: katt

Further reading

  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “kǫttr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 368
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “köttr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 257; also available at the Internet Archive
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