köttur

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Icelandic

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köttur

Etymology

From Old Norse kǫttr, from Proto-Germanic *kattuz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkʰœhtʏr/,
Rhymes: -œhtʏr

Noun

köttur m (genitive singular kattar, nominative plural kettir)

A cat; a (usually domesticated) carnivorous mammal with short fur, a short snout, and retractable claws.
Synonyms: flækingsköttur, heimilisköttur, húsköttur, kattardýr, stórköttur, villiköttur

Mér sýnist að þessi köttur sem þú keyptir í Grundarfirði gæti verið vondur.
It seems to me like that cat which you bought in Grundarfjörður might be evil.

Declension

Declension of köttur (masculine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	köttur	kötturinn	kettir	kettirnir
accusative	kött	köttinn	ketti, köttu¹	kettina
dative	ketti	kettinum	köttum	köttunum
genitive	kattar	kattarins	katta	kattanna

¹Archaic or literary.

Derived terms

Derived phrases

ekki upp í nös á ketti (“insufficient, not enough to fill a cat's nostril”)
fara í hund og kött (“to go haywire”)
fara í kringum eins og köttur í kringum heitan graut (“to beat around the bush”)
ganga um einhvers staðar eins og grár köttur, vera eins og grár köttur einhvers staðar (“be a frequent visitor somewhere, be always hanging around the place”)
í myrkri eru allir kettir gráir, allir kettir eru gráir í myrkri
kaupa köttinn í sekknum (“to be sold a pig in a poke”)
leika sér að eins og köttur að mús (“to play cat and mouse”)

Further reading

"köttur" in Íslensk nútímamálsorðabók (Dictionary of Modern Icelandic), Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls (Discription of the Inflection of Modern Icelandic), Ritmálssafn Orðabókar Háskólans (The University's Dictionary of Literary Works), and ISLEX-orðabókin (The ISLEX-Dictionary).

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