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THE CAT IN SEVERAL LANGUAGES

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 16, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 28.

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THE CAT IN SEVERAL LANGUAGES.

THE cat is called a kat in Danish and Dutch, katt in Swedish, chat in France and the most of its dependencies, katti or katze in German, catus in Latin, gatto in Italian, gato in Portuguese and Spanish, kot in Polish, kots in Russian, keti in Turkish, cath in Welsh, kathl in Cornish, catua in Basque and gaz or katz in Armenia. Mr. Harrison, the great English authority on cats, says that there are not a dozen languages or dialects known that spell the word cat without beginning with the letter c, k, or g. The native Australians and those of Mexico had no words for the name of domestic felines.—St. Louis Republic.