катъ

Old Ruthenian

Etymology

First attested in 1529. Borrowed from Middle Polish, from Old Polish kat, from Proto-Slavic *katъ.

Noun

катъ • (kat) m pers

1. executioner, hangman, headsman

Descendants

• Belarusian: кат (kat)
• Carpathian Rusyn: кат (kat)
• Ukrainian: кат (kat)
• → Russian: кат (kat) (dialectal)

Further reading

• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1983), “катъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 3 (вариво – вкупе), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 15