ketta

Children's song: góðan morgun, ketta mín - Good morning, my cat.

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse ketta. See also køttur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɛʰtːa]

Noun

ketta f (genitive singular kettu, plural kettur)

1. cat

Declension

f1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ketta	kettan	kettur	ketturnar
accusative	kettu	kettuna	kettur	ketturnar
dative	kettu	kettuni	kettum	kettunum
genitive	kettu	kettunnar	ketta	kettanna

Synonyms

• (rare) kattur, køttur

Related terms

• geypa
• revur
• úlvur
• hundur
• hara
• íkorni
• elgur
• reindýr
• hjørtur
• bjørn
• villsvín
• bævur

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kattijǭ, *kattǭ (“female cat”).

Noun

ketta f (genitive kettu)

1. a female cat

   Synonym: kisa

2. a giantess

Declension

  Declension of ketta (weak ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ketta	kettan	kettur	ketturnar
accusative	kettu	kettuna	kettur	ketturnar
dative	kettu	kettunni	kettum	kettunum
genitive	kettu	kettunnar	kettna	kettnanna

Coordinate terms

• kausi, kisi

Descendants

• Icelandic: ketta
• Faroese: ketta
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kjette, kjetta
• Norwegian Bokmål: kjette
• Old Swedish: kætta
  • Swedish: katta

References

• “ketta”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press