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The word cat derives form Old English catt, which belongs to a group of related words in European languages, including Welsh cath, Spanish gato, Basque katu, Byzantine Greek katia, Old Irish cat, German Katze, and Old Chruch Slavonic kotka. The ultimate source of all these terms is Late Latin catus, cattus, catta "domestic cat", as opposed to feles "European wildcat". It is unclear whether the Greek or the Latin came first, but they were undoubtedly borrowed from an Afro_asiatic language akin to Nubian kadis and Berber kaddiska, both meaning "wildcat". This term was either cognate with or borrowed from Late Egyptioan caus jungle cat, African wildcat" (later giving Coptic"tomcat"), itself form earlier Egyptian tesau female cat (vs. miew tomcat"). The term puss (as in pussycat) may come form Dutch pies or from Low German Puuskatte, dialectal Swedish kattepus, or Norwegian pus, pusekatt, all of which primarily denote a woman and by extension, a female cat.
The word cat derives form Old English catt, which belongs to a group of related words in European languages, including Welsh cath, Spanish gato, Basque katu, Byzantine Greek katia, Old Irish cat, German Katze, and Old Chruch Slavonic kotka. The ultimate source of all these terms is Late Latin catus, cattus, catta "domestic cat", as opposed to feles "European wildcat". It is unclear whether the Greek or the Latin came first, but they were undoubtedly borrowed from an Afro_asiatic language akin to Nubian kadis and Berber kaddiska, both meaning "wildcat". This term was either cognate with or borrowed from Late Egyptioan caus jungle cat, African wildcat" (later giving Coptic"tomcat"), itself form earlier Egyptian tesau female cat (vs. miew tomcat"). The term puss (as in pussycat) may come form Dutch pies or from Low German Puuskatte, dialectal Swedish kattepus, or Norwegian pus, pusekatt, all of which primarily denote a woman and by extension, a female cat. 
