April theme: Miscellaneous light and cat words 🦁
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Egyptian *Caw [1]
- Coptic ϣⲁⲩ šau cat dialectic
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Egyptian *Cawt female cat with regular feminine -t
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Aramaic qaṭṭu cat
- Arabic قِطّ qiṭṭ cat
- Hebrew חָתוּל khatúl cat
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Old Armenian կատու katu cat
- Armenian կատու katu cat
- Georgian კატა ḳaṭa cat
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Byzantine Greek καττα katta cat
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Ottoman Turkish کدی kädi
- Turkish kedi cat
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- Berber kaddîska wildcat
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Nubian kadís cat
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Latin cattus cat [2]
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Eastern Romance *catu
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Eastern Romance *catusa diminutive
- Aromanian cãtushi cat
- Romanian cătușă handcuff, manacle
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Western Romance
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Old French cate
- French chat cat
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Old French catepeluse caterpillar lit. "fuzzy-cat"
- English caterpillar
- Italian gatto cat
- Spanish gato cat
- Basque katu cat
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Maghrebi Arabic
- Libyan Arabic قَطُّوس gaṭṭūs
- Maltese qattus
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Brythonic *kaθ cat
- Welsh cath cat
- Greek γάτα gáta cat [2]
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Old Irish catt cat
- Irish cat cat
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Germanic *kattuz cat
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North Germanic
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Old Norse kǫttr cat
- Danish kat cat
- Icelandic köttur cat
- Finnish katti cat colloquial
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West Germanic
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Old English catt(e)
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English cat
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English kitty cat dimunitive
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Frankish
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Dutch kat cat
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Afrikaans kat cat
- Zulu ikati cat
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Old High German kazza
- German Katze
- Yiddish קאַץ kats cat
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Germanic *katazô tomcat
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West Germanic
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Frankish
- Dutch kater tomcat
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Old High German
- Dutch Kater tomcat
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Slavic *kotъ male cat [2]
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East Slavic
- Russian кот kot male cat
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West Slavic
- Polish kot cat, esp. male
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Slavic *kotъka female cat
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East Slavic
- Old Church Slavonic котъка kotŭka cat, anchor
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Russian ко́шка kóška cat, esp. female
- Estonian kass cat
- Ukrainian кі́шка kíška cat, esp. female
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West Slavic
- Polish kocica
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