Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kataʀō

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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kataʀō

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

A West Germanic formation taken from *kattu (“cat”) + the masculinizing suffix *-aʀō, *-aʀ; compare the development from Proto-Germanic *gans (“goose”) to *ganzô (“gander (male goose)”).[1]

Noun

*kataʀō m

1. tomcat

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kataʀō
Genitive	*kataʀini, *kataʀan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kataʀō	*kataʀan
Accusative	*kataʀan	*kataʀan
Genitive	*kataʀini, *kataʀan	*kataʀanō
Dative	*kataʀini, *kataʀan	*kataʀum
Instrumental	*kataʀini, *kataʀan	*kataʀum

Related terms

• *kattu

Descendants

• Old Frisian: katera
  • Saterland Frisian: Koater
  • West Frisian: kater
• Old Saxon: *kataro
  • Middle Low German: kāter
    • German Low German: Kater, Koter, kaoter
    • Plautdietsch: Kota
  • → Old High German: kataro
    • Middle High German: katere
      • Bavarian: Koda, Kåda

        Cimbrian: khàttaro

      • German: Kater
      • Luxembourgish: Kueder
      • Vilamovian: kōter
      • Yiddish: קאָטער‎ (koter)
• Old Dutch: *kataro
  • Middle Dutch: cāter
    • Dutch: kater
    • Limburgish: kater

References

1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “katazan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 281