Contionary:katt

Niemish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /katt/

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

• màtz ("cat, female cat")
• kä̀tling ("kitten")

Skundavisk

Etymology

From Middle Skundavisk katt, from Old Skundavisk katta, kattu, from Halmisk ᚲᚨᛏᛏᚢ (kattu), ᚲᚨᛏᛏᚢᛉ (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 kætt and kætte more frequently.