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] [1]

Noun

ketta f (genitive singular kettu, plural kettur)

  1. 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

References
  1. Árnason, Kristján (2011) The Phonology of Icelandic and Faroese (The Phonology of the World's Languages), Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 116

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

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

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