to be a loanword from Latin cattus or <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Germanic *kattuz (see the entry cat for further etymology). *<span class="searchmatch">kattos</span> m cat Goidelic: Old Irish: catt Irish:...
Feminine equivalent of *<span class="searchmatch">kattos</span>; either borrowed from or cognate with post-Classical Latin catta (“cat”). *kattā f cat <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Brythonic: *kaθ Breton: kazh...