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Yoïn van Spijk@yvanspijk.bsky.social |
The origin of the word 'cat' is unknown. There are similar words in many related languages, such as French 'chat', Welsh 'cath', Polish 'kot', but also in unrelated languages, e.g. Arabic 'qiṭṭa' and Turkish 'kedi'. However, none of these languages can be identified as the source. Here's more:
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Anton Voloshin
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Jij zal dit wellicht weten - is het waar dat in het Oud-Egyptisch de naam voor "kat" letterlijk "mau" was?
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birgerolof
@bjlueeyes.bsky.social
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It's a bit like "ginandtonic" Source: D Adams (1980), The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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Cronhill
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Found this, helpful? From Pfeiffer, Etymol.. Wörterbuch
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Sue
@taxon-rascal.bsky.social
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In Romanian it’s pisică, which looks to me as if it’s pronounced a bit like pussycat?
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Zielstrebig
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Interestingly Proto Germanic' kattuz' is found today in some living Arabic dialects.
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Zielstrebig
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The Arab stem is qitt قط for male, qitta قطة ( female cat) is derived from it.
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Jordi
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Just like how humans did not domesticate cats, instead cats decided to live with us; the word for cat is not originally Indo-European, but decided to become a word in all languages.
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🇵🇸Dr. Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə)
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😯 that's so cool!
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blauwbaard
@blauwbaard.bsky.social
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Ik mis de overgang in betekenis van 'female cat' naar gewoon 'cat' of 'catlike' in het Middelnederlands. Aan de andere kant, sommige mensen gebruiken 'poes' als algemene term voor het dier en 'kat' als vrouwelijke tegenhanger van 'kater'. Anderen zien 'poes' uitsluitend als vrouwtjeskat. 1/2
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Joe Slater
@joeinaustralia.bsky.social
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Do you think the Hebrew/Aramaic חתול is related?
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Jona Lendering
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Grappig, ik heb me daar ook mee beziggehouden. Er is intrigerend mtDNA-bewijs dat helpt de vervanging van felis door cattus te verklaren: mainzerbeobachter.com/2024/03/11/d...
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Reto 🎗️ רטו\רעטאָ\רֵיטוֹ
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קאַץ, קעץ קאָטער, קאָטערס
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