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ketta

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Children's song: góðan morgun, ketta mín - Good morning, my cat.

Faroese

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Etymology

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From Old Norse ketta. See also køttur.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ketta f (genitive singular kettu, plural kettur)

  1. cat

Declension

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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

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References

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  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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *kattijǭ, *kattǭ (“female cat”).

Noun

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ketta f (genitive kettu)

  1. a female cat
    Synonym: kisa
  2. a giantess

Declension

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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

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Descendants

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

Further reading

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “ketta”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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