ketta
Children's song: góðan morgun, ketta mín - Good morning, my cat.
Faroese
Etymology
See køttur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [t͡ʃɛʰtːa] [1]
Noun
ketta f (genitive singular kettu, plural kettur)
- cat
Declension
| Declension of ketta | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
References
- Árnason, Kristján (2011) The Phonology of Icelandic and Faroese (The Phonology of the World's Languages) (in English), Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 116
Old Norse
Noun
ketta f (genitive kettu)
- a female cat
- 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
- Faroese: ketta
- Norwegian: katte, kjette
- Old Swedish: kætta
- Swedish: katta
- Westrobothnian: kaatt, kjaatt
References
- ketta in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press