catt
Appearance
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]catt m
- cat
- Hēo hrīemþ. Iċ hrīeme. Sē catt hrīemþ.
- She screams. I scream. The cat screams.
Declension
[edit]Declension of catt (strong a-stem)
Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *kattos, either borrowed from or cognate with Latin cattus, which is possibly from Afroasiatic, but see cat for more.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]catt m (genitive caitt)
- cat
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 10
- catt ab eo quod est cattus
- catt from that which is cattus
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 10
Inflection
[edit]Masculine o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | catt | cattL | caittL |
Vocative | caitt | cattL | cattuH |
Accusative | cattN | cattL | cattuH |
Genitive | caittL | catt | cattN |
Dative | cattL | cattaib | cattaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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catt | chatt | catt pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “catt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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