Word Origin Summary

*katta is attested in Old Dutch. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• ikati

  Xhosa · borrowed from

• catte

  Middle Dutch · inherited from

• Catskill Mountains

  English · derived from

• kat

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• ikati

  Zulu · borrowed from

• kat

  Dutch · inherited from

• Cattenbroek

  Dutch · inherited from

What You Can Explore

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