katta

katta

1. indefinite genitive plural of köttur

katta m (invariable)

1. Variant of lemure catta

• katten

katta m or f

1. definite feminine singular of katte

katta f

1. definite singular of katte

Common to West and North Germanic: cognate with Old English catte, Old Frisian katte, Middle Dutch katte) (Dutch kat), Old High German kazza (German Katze), Old Norse ketta (Swedish katta). The word existed in the Germanic languages in a masculine gender also, represented in Old Saxon by katto. The word appears to be related to Late Latin cattus as well as to similar words in the Slavic and Celtic languages, but the ultimate source is uncertain.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkatta/

katta f

1. a female cat

• Middle Low German: katte
  • Dutch Low Saxon: katte
  • German Low German: Katt, Katte

    Plautdietsch: Kautt, Kaut

katta

1. vocative singular of kattar

katta c

1. female cat; especially one which has had kittens

• katt
• vildkatta

• markatta

katta

1. big
2. large
3. huge

From Proto-Finnic *kattadak.

katta

1. to cover
2. to roof

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “закрыть, затягивать, крыть, накрыть, окутать, покрывать, сервировать”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika