Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kattos

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This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Celtic

Etymology

Assumed to be a loanword from Latin cattus or Proto-Germanic *kattuz (see the entry cat for further etymology).

Noun

*kattos m^[1]

cat

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kattos	*kattou	*kattoi
vocative	*katte	*kattou	*kattūs
accusative	*kattom	*kattou	*kattoms
genitive	*kattī	*kattous	*kattom
dative	*kattūi	*kattobom	*kattobos
locative	*kattei	*?	*?
instrumental	*kattū	*kattobim	*kattūis

Descendants

Goidelic:
- Old Irish: catt
  - Irish: cat
  - Manx: kayt
  - Scottish Gaelic: cat
  - ⇒ Middle Irish: caittín
Gaulish: *cattos
- → Latin: Cattos, Cattus, Catta, Cattosa, Catto, Cattius

Coordinate terms

*kattā f (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*katto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 195

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