Contionary:katt

Skundavisk

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kʰat/

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 katt and kætte more frequently.