Word Origin Summary

*kat is attested in Proto-Turkic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• kat

  Turkish · inherited from

• ҡат

  Bashkir · derived from

• ҡатлам

  Bashkir · derived from

• qat

  AZE · inherited from

• ҡарағат

  Bashkir · inherited from

• قاتتىق

  Uyghur · derived from

• карагат

  Kyrgyz · inherited from

• кат

  Southern Altai · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root