kǫttr

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Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kattuz (“cat”).

Pronunciation

(12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒtːr̩/

Noun

kǫttr m (genitive kattar, plural kettir)

cat
- Magus saga jarls 19, in 1884, G. Cederschiöld, Fornsögur Suðrlanda. Lund, page 34:
  enn annat var morautt, sem i kauttum.
  
  but the other was yellow-brown, as if that of a cat.

Declension

Declension of *kǫttr* (strong u-stem)
masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kǫttr	kǫttrinn	kettir	kettirnir
accusative	kǫtt	kǫttinn	kǫttu	kǫttuna
dative	ketti	kettinum	kǫttum	kǫttunum
genitive	kattar	kattarins	katta	kattanna

Derived terms

fjalakǫttr (“mousetrap”)
hreysikǫttr (“ermine”)
kattarauga (“forget-me-not”)
kattarrófa (“a cat's tail”)
kattartunga (“sea plantain”)
trékǫttr (“mousetrap”)

Descendants

Faroese: køttur
Icelandic: köttur
Norwegian Nynorsk: katt
Old Swedish: katter
- Swedish: katt
Danish: kat
- Norwegian Bokmål: katt

Further reading

Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “kǫttr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 368
Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “köttr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 257; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857

page/257 Internet Archive]

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