Where does “ко́шка” come from?
ко́шка (Russian) comes from Old Church Slavonic ко́шька, from Proto-Slavic *kòťьka, from Proto-Slavic *kòťь, from Proto-Slavic kǫtъ, from Latin cattus, from Latin catta — a cat.
Ancestry of “ко́шка”, step by step
Words derived from “ко́шка”