Where does “cat” come from?

cat (Middle English) comes from Old English catt, from Proto-West Germanic *kattu — cat.

cat (Middle English): cat (feline)

Definitions

  1. cat (feline)

Ancestry of “cat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishcattcat
2Proto-West Germanic*kattucat

Words derived from “cat”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *kattu →
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