Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kataʀō

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

A West Germanic formation taken from *kattu (“cat”) + the masculinizing suffix *-aʀō, *-aʀ; compare the development from Proto-Germanic *gans (“goose”) to *ganzô (“gander (male goose)”).[1]

Noun

*kataʀō m

tomcat

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kataʀō
Genitive	kataʀini, kataʀan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kataʀō	*kataʀan
Accusative	*kataʀan	*kataʀan
Genitive	kataʀini, kataʀan	*kataʀanō
Dative	kataʀini, kataʀan	*kataʀum
Instrumental	kataʀini, kataʀan	*kataʀum

Related terms

*kattu

Descendants

Old Frisian: katera
- Saterland Frisian: Koater
- West Frisian: kater
Old Saxon: *kataro
- Middle Low German: kāter
  - German Low German: Kater, Koter, kaoter
  - Plautdietsch: Kota
- → Old High German: kataro
  - Middle High German: katere
    - Bavarian: Koda, Kåda
      Cimbrian: khàttaro
    - German: Kater
    - Luxembourgish: Kueder
    - Vilamovian: kōter
    - Yiddish: קאָטער‎ (koter)
Old Dutch: *kataro
- Middle Dutch: cāter
  - Dutch: kater
  - Limburgish: kater

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013), “katazan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 281

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[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “katazan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 281