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{{Nm-noun-mm-2|kàtt|kä̀tt|tomcat, male cat}}
====Coordinate terms====
* ''{{term|matz|màtz}}'' ("cat, female cat")
* ''{{term|kätling|kä̀tling}}'' ("kitten")
==Skundavisk==
==Skundavisk==
===Etymology===
===Etymology===

Latest revision as of 21:03, 24 July 2023

Niemish

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kattuz.

Noun

² kàtt n.m. mixed stem

  1. tomcat, male cat

Declension

declension of kàtt (mm declension)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative kàtt kàttan kä̀tts kä̀ttias
genitive kä̀tts kä̀ttes kä̀tte kä̀ttse
dative kàtt kàttum kä̀ttią kä̀ttę

Coordinate terms

Skundavisk

Etymology

From Middle Skundavisk katt, from Old Skundavisk katta, kattu, from Halmisk ᚲᚨᛏᛏᚢ (kattu), ᚲᚨᛏᛏᚢᛉ (kattuŕ), from Proto-Germanic *kattuz.

Pronunciation

Noun

katt m. (class 1 or 3a, genitive katts or kætt, plural katts or kætte)

  1. cat
    The katt feng een mous.
    The cat caught a mouse.


Usage notes

The presence of two variants in Old Skundavisk, the original u-stem kattu and the innovated alternative a-stem katta, explains the two possible genitives and plurals in the modern language. Northern speakers tend to use katts for both the genitive and the plural more often, while the Southern speakers use kætt and kætte more frequently.

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