köken: Inherited from Middle French chat, from Old French chat, from Late Latin cattus.
aile: à bon chat, bon rat, à ne pas mettre un chat dehors, absent le chat, les souris dansent, acheter chat en poche, appeler un chat un chat, arbre à chat, avoir d'autres chats à fouetter, avoir un chat dans la gorge, c'est le chat qui se mord la queue, chat à neuf queues
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic котъ (kotŭ), from Proto-Slavic *kotъ. Should be separated from коти́ться (kotítʹsja) (related to око́т (okót), catulus), the connection with this word is secondary.
köken: From the onomatopoeia бес-бес (bes-bes, “the sound used to call a cat”). Compare Tatar песи (pesi, “cat”). Any relation with Proto-Common Turkic *mušuq ~ *mišik, from earlier *pïšïk (“cat”) cannot be satisfactorily made.
köken: 괴 (goe, “cat”, now largely obsolete) + -앙이 (-ang'i, diminutive suffix). First recorded in 1690, and became popular in the late 19th century. Ultimately from Old Korean *kwò(y)ní, attested in the twelfth-century wordlist Jilin leishi; see 괴 (goe) for more.
a cat · a sexually attractive woman · a cat-o'-nine-tails
çekim: çoğul katter · tamlayan katts
köken: From Old Swedish katter, from Old Norse kǫttr, from Proto-Germanic *kattuz, from Late Latin cattus, from Latin catta. Usage as a minced oath due to the association in folklore between cats and the forces of darkness.
aile: angorakatt, apekatt, bondkatt, en katt bland hermelinerna, ginstkatt, gipskatt, gå som katten kring het gröt, hankatt, havskatt, honkatt
köken: Etymology tree Polish kici Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Balto-Slavic *-āˀ Proto-Slavic *-a Old Polish -a Polish -a Polish kicia From kici + -a.
köken: Possibly inherited from Late Latin cattus (“cat”), having later been suffixed with -oi (or perhaps directly from a Vulgar Latin cattōneus), the original pronunciation thus being *cătoi. The change from ă to o is not uncommon, occuring in words such as; porumb < părumb and boteza < *băteza. See also cătușă, which meant cat in archaic language. Alternatively from a former *cot, from Old Church…