катъ
Old Ruthenian
editEtymology
editFirst attested in 1529. Borrowed from Middle Polish, from Old Polish kat, from Proto-Slavic *katъ.
Noun
editкатъ • (kat) m pers
Descendants
edit- Belarusian: кат (kat)
- Carpathian Rusyn: кат (kat)
- Ukrainian: кат (kat)
- → Russian: кат (kat) (dialectal)
Further reading
edit- 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