Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — Many Ways of Spelling “Cat.” [ARTICLE]

Many Ways of Spelling “Cat.”

Those of you who are fond of cats will be interested to know that as these soft-purring creatures look the same in all countries they are also known in these various lands by names not very different from that by which they are known to you. In Danish and Dutch and Swedish the word differs from our own designation only in the spelling, being “kat” in first two and “katt” in the last. To the French the cat is known as “chat.” In Germany dbe cat is called “katze;” in Latin,, “catus;” “gatto” in Italian; “gato” in Portuguese and Spanish; “kot” in Polish; “kots” in Russian; “keto” in Turkish; “cath” in Welsh; “catua” in Basque and “gsz* or.“katz” in Armenian.— Harper‘« Young People.