kato

kato

1. basket

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Compare with kuto.

kato

1. dog tick

Unknown.

kato

1. that

Borrowed from French chat, English cat, Russian кот (kot), Yiddish קאַץ‎‎‎ (kats‎‎), Italian gatto, German Katze, etc., from Latin cattus, from an Afro-Asiatic language.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkato/
• Hyphenation: ka‧to
• Rhymes: -ato
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kato (accusative singular katon, plural katoj, accusative plural katojn)

1. cat

• feliso (“member of the Felis genus”)

• kateto (“a small cat”)
• katiĉo (“a tom”) (neologism)
• katido (“a kitten”)
• katino (“a female cat”)
• virkato (“a tom”) (idiomatic)

• kataĵo (“cat meat”)

• kataro (“a clowder of cats”)

• katherbo (“catnip”)
• mustelkato (“a stone-marten”)

From Proto-Uralic *kaďa- (“to leave”). Cognates are found in almost every Uralic language, e.g. Northern Sami guođđit (“to leave something, to depart”), Skolt Sami kue´đđed (“to leave smth”), Moksha кадомс (kadoms, “to leave”), Eastern Mari кодаш (kodaš, “to stay”), Udmurt кыльыны (kylʹyny, “to stay”), Hungarian hagy (“to let; to leave”), Mansi хули (“to leave”), Selkup [Term?] (/quəčə-/, “to leave”). Labialization of the stem vowel occurred in Proto-Finnic, compare Estonian kadu (“loss”).

• Hyphenation: ka‧to
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑto]

kato

1. failure of crops
2. loss, disappearance, lack (used primarily in compound terms)

   yleisökato ― lack or loss of audience

• kadota (verb)

A dialectal or colloquial 2nd person imperative present of katsoa (“to look”). The corresponding infinitive is kattoa.

• Hyphenation: ka‧to
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑtoˣ]

kato

1. (colloquial) look!

   Kato, tuolla on George! — Look, there's George!

2. (colloquial) see (used often with ny)

   Kato ny, mähän sanoin. — See, I told you so.

• katso
• ka (colloquial)

kato

1. (colloquial) see or look.
   • Se on kato sillä lailla.
     • See, that’s the way it is.
   • Kato nääs! or Kato kato!
     • Literally: Look, look!. Uttered in surprise, not necessarily telling anyone to look anywhere.
   • Kato nääs, säkin olet saapunut paikalle.
     • Lo and behold, you have arrived on the scene, too.
   • ...kato nääs. or ...kato.
     • ...you see. (At the end of a sentence)

• katsos, näet, nimittäin

• niinku
• nääs
• tiäksä

• kota, toka

Borrowed from Esperanto kato, Latin cattus, English cat, French chat, German Katze, Italian gatto, Russian кот (kot), Spanish gato.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.to/

kato (plural kati)

1. cat

kato

1. Rōmaji transcription of かと

kato

1. basket

kate +‎ -o (masculine nominal suffix).

kato m (plural katos)

1. tomcat, male cat

• kate (“cat”)

• kata (“female cat”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.tɔ/

kato f

1. vocative singular of kata

katô

1. blood-sucking mite or tick that commonly infects animals like horses or cows
2. (figuratively) spurt of mischief or naughtiness