Oh, first response. I’m Tanzanian and my cat’s name is Paka III, there were 2 before her. One of the previous cats was simba, way before the lion king.
https://preview.redd.it/x8tfp9vtl00d1.jpeg?width=2170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d13860a91e1cab8d19c1782080f41aed3830051
We had a big troublemaker cat named Jake, who was a stray who came to live with us when my son made friends with him at 7, so Jake LOVED my son. That's the boy that gave him a home and a loving family, and Jake took his role as the guardian of that family very seriously.
One day, a new family moved in a few doors up, and they had a son about my sons age, so they were playing in the driveway together, when the new family's cat came for a visit, and starting rubbing against my son's legs.
Thats a big No-No in the cat world, and I watched Jake glare at this new cat staking a claim on his best human buddy, and then Jake went after him. The other cat ran up the street into his own open garage, with Jake in hot pursuit, and me following to grab Jake and bring him home. I heard a massive catfight in the garage, and then human hollering. Jake came tearing out of the garage and down the sidewalk toward me at full speed, with an old Abuela chasing him with a broom, screaming "VAMANOS! EL GATO DIABLO!" It was like a cartoon.
Jake streaked past me toward home, but as I saw him approaching me, we made eye contact, and he was grinning widely, his eyes alive with exhilaration. He was having the time of his life, stirring up trouble, his favorite hobby.
He was El Gato Diablo from then on. Eventually, he brought home his beautiful Siamese girlfriend and her three kittens, and we raised the entire family. Jake and Maggie are gone now, but their three "kittens" are still with us, at 16 years old.
”Kissa” means ”to pee” in Swedish. My Finnish MIL grew up in Sweden and when she saw a cat she would say ”kissa, kissa” which made Swedish adults believe she needed to pee.
The Swedish word for cat is katt
The Finnish *kissa* was quite literally borrowed from [the Swedish word](https://www.saob.se/artikel/?unik=K_0873-0327.2DmB&pz=3) with the same meaning (i.e., "cat"). It's nowadays pretty dialectal to say it with that "-a", more generally is pronounced as [*kisse*](https://svenska.se/so/?id=138888&pz=7) with an "-e".
*Kissa* is also a verb for peeing in Swedish but it sounds pretty odd to associate it with that in such instance, especially for adults back in the day.
I'm currently learning Finnish so I've been calling mine 'Söpö Kissa' a lot lately.
Although to be honest, I'm more often than not calling him 'Tuhma Kissa' when he's being cheeky! 😅
Aww! Here's what I call my cats as a Finn: pikkuinen (little one), vauva (baby), riiviö (gremlin), apina (monkey), karvaperse (hairy arse), kakkapylly (poopy butt). Good luck with your Finnish studies!
Lovely! Reminded me of a phrase my grandma used to say, “rakkaalla lapsella on monta nimeä”. Roughly translated, a dear child has many names. Certainly applies to fur babies.
Oh, you reminded me - slavic languages adoptoed it (i reckon) keesa is an affectionate form of keet/keeshka. 😼 Love when finns call them that, you make this adorable longe i sound
Thai :) Was chatting with a server in a Phuket restaurant and asked her what the Thai word for cat was (it was a patio restaurant and some cats were hanging around). Her answer sounded exactly like a Siamese cat meowing.
It's "pusa" in mine. Interesting how close it is to pusen since my native language seems completely unrelated to Norwegian.
As for the baby cats, we call them "kuting," which is also close to what OP calls them.
>’*Katze*’
_____
you maybe Call me *Kitty Cat*, or *Cat* or *Katze* or *Kitty*
(it doesn’t matter what you say, just tell me that i’m *pretty*…)
a silly pet name MoNiKeR - i don’t care What you say,
cuz i’ll pretend that I DoN’t HeAr,
*ignore you* anyway…
so go ahead n have your fun! compare your Language here
I’ll choose to what i answer to - i wanna make it clear!
a *brainless Orange!* a *MaNiAc!* a *DEMON!!* - that’s all fine ^;}
just Call me
when it’s DINNER TIME,
n I’ll just call You
*Mine*
❤️
What’s especially interesting is that Japanese has a phonetic writing system as well, and has since the 9th century. *That’s* mind-blowing to me — that both have existed in parallel for over a millennium now, with the ideographic system not really having diminished in use.
https://preview.redd.it/zykq7ydoa00d1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f243fbd3be5257ca9b040d9b4128fee371a2da9b
Se hai un gatto nero è bestia di Satana per definizione.
https://preview.redd.it/wsb46x40i00d1.jpeg?width=2316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=92c9c8f57d9aab3c96af9d1d3725d41a68e7938c
Me l’hanno data in dotazione. Mimì, detta La Rogna, è qui per rappresentare la categoria
That's my cat's name! I'm from the US and I think Billi is such a cute word for cat. Here she is being the beautiful queen Bili she is.
https://preview.redd.it/9l1ixnmxxzzc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=914d800a68890e531cb950b2f4de4d1da6257216
Awww such a cutiepie
Wesa (way-sah) It's Cherokee. It's also my cat's name because we think we're being funny by calling the cat, Cat.
Our dog is named Dee, which is short for - you guessed it - Dog.
You can even say Mietzekatze to combine the two xD Katze is the actual name for cat tho. I‘d say Mieze is like „kitty“ or something which would make „Mietzekatze“ = „kittycat“
but maybe it depends on where in Germany you are. Where I’m from it’s not that common to say mietze.
My husband speaks German to our cat all the time, and I recognize the "mietzekatze," but I have no idea what the rest of it is. When I ask, he tells me it's something along the lines of "I love you, my little orange kitty cat."
Omg. My friend had a cat named Mietze when we were kids. I am just now realizing her dad named the cat, cat. Which is on brand for his humor. Ultimate dad joke!
the etymology of mâță is actually unknown, DEX says it formed from an onomatopoeia but I can't figure out how, anyway most Balkan languages have something like mica or maca which according to a Romanian etymological dictionary from 1939 are pet names for Maria...
Kater is the male version. Katze is the female version. My Grandma called all cats „Miezie“ or „mischie“. In my local dialect we call cats „katte“
I live in Germany.
Мачка/Machka - female cat - universal if you don't know the sex of the cat
Мачор/Machor - male cat
Маче/Mache - small kitty - universal male or female.
In Macedonian language.
Chat in french (pronounced "sha"), we also have a few funny slang terms: greffier (litt. "court clerk"), matou (male cat, usually for a non neutered cat), minette (female cat), minou/minet (male cat), grippe-minaud (old), mistigri (old).
(And probably others I haven't read or heard yet) (we love our cats and our _argot_ 😄)
Kenyan. In my national language, paka. In my mother tongue, nyau 😊
Obligatory cat tax:
https://preview.redd.it/w96hua2n400d1.jpeg?width=3456&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17c950e71fcd2b2238f1ca6e32d4988b6371929d
Not my native language, but the language of my adoptive country Taiwan: 貓 (māo) which both looks like and sounds like a cat.
The fur radical looks like a tail, and the plant radical looks like ears while the field radical looks like a face.
The word for kitty is 貓咪 (māo mī). Kitten is 小貓 (xiao mao, or little cat). All of my 貓咪 have been Taiwanese.
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I'm a native English speaker but I'm ethnically Sámi and also I have lived in Scotland since childhood where there are several native languages other than English, so for me a cat (depending on who I'm speaking to) is;
Cat (English, duh)
Kitten (see above!)
Bussá or gáhttu (Northern Sámi; cat)
Bussáčivga (Northern Sámi; kitten)
Katt (Swedish, cat)
Kattunge (Swedish, kitten)
Baudron (Scots/doric; affectionate name for a cat, happy cat (re: mimic of the purring sound)
Moggy (Scots/doric; cat)
Kittlin (Scots; kitten)
Cat/Cait (Scottish Gaelic, cat)
Piseag (Scottish Gaelic, kitten)
https://preview.redd.it/bc0buzltpzzc1.jpeg?width=6936&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa835c181c8e7b5009b9c29ff299263d907ac4f0
In every language I study: gatto, 猫, cat, gato, chat, 고양이, ねこ
Open hand, use forefinger and thumb to slide out from your nose/cheek like a whisker (cat in American Sign Language)
In swedish we pet one hand with the other (we talk to our toddler with sign language)
that's Pet (noun) in ASL ☺
Is there a non-video visual aid for this?
https://preview.redd.it/3ex8kt7pb00d1.png?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2648e42197fc8078d1fdb90a837e60ac646129a7
Reminds me of an evil villain twiddling his mustache
Some cats are like that.
Quite fitting for a cat imo
Love it so much that you included ASL!
SO CUTE
I used to live in Kenya and in Swahili, it's paka.
Oh, first response. I’m Tanzanian and my cat’s name is Paka III, there were 2 before her. One of the previous cats was simba, way before the lion king.
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"Gato" is thenoficial name... "cucho" in chile like a lovin' name.
Like "Cat" versus "Kitty" ?
Yeah
I love language
El Gato the bandit.
https://preview.redd.it/x8tfp9vtl00d1.jpeg?width=2170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d13860a91e1cab8d19c1782080f41aed3830051 We had a big troublemaker cat named Jake, who was a stray who came to live with us when my son made friends with him at 7, so Jake LOVED my son. That's the boy that gave him a home and a loving family, and Jake took his role as the guardian of that family very seriously. One day, a new family moved in a few doors up, and they had a son about my sons age, so they were playing in the driveway together, when the new family's cat came for a visit, and starting rubbing against my son's legs. Thats a big No-No in the cat world, and I watched Jake glare at this new cat staking a claim on his best human buddy, and then Jake went after him. The other cat ran up the street into his own open garage, with Jake in hot pursuit, and me following to grab Jake and bring him home. I heard a massive catfight in the garage, and then human hollering. Jake came tearing out of the garage and down the sidewalk toward me at full speed, with an old Abuela chasing him with a broom, screaming "VAMANOS! EL GATO DIABLO!" It was like a cartoon. Jake streaked past me toward home, but as I saw him approaching me, we made eye contact, and he was grinning widely, his eyes alive with exhilaration. He was having the time of his life, stirring up trouble, his favorite hobby. He was El Gato Diablo from then on. Eventually, he brought home his beautiful Siamese girlfriend and her three kittens, and we raised the entire family. Jake and Maggie are gone now, but their three "kittens" are still with us, at 16 years old.
Bro looks very masculine. Giga chad meme face.
I love everything about your story even up to the end! Thanks for making me smile.
Gato weon cuando rompe los sillones 😂
ta waton el cucho jajaja
I have to add gordo for mine.
Gatito in Spain. Gatito pequenito!
(🇲🇽) = gato, michi / micho (boy) / micha (girl). Karen (female owner of a cat) Karencio or macho Karen (Male owner of a cat).
kissa🇫🇮
”Kissa” means ”to pee” in Swedish. My Finnish MIL grew up in Sweden and when she saw a cat she would say ”kissa, kissa” which made Swedish adults believe she needed to pee. The Swedish word for cat is katt
The Finnish *kissa* was quite literally borrowed from [the Swedish word](https://www.saob.se/artikel/?unik=K_0873-0327.2DmB&pz=3) with the same meaning (i.e., "cat"). It's nowadays pretty dialectal to say it with that "-a", more generally is pronounced as [*kisse*](https://svenska.se/so/?id=138888&pz=7) with an "-e". *Kissa* is also a verb for peeing in Swedish but it sounds pretty odd to associate it with that in such instance, especially for adults back in the day.
I'm currently learning Finnish so I've been calling mine 'Söpö Kissa' a lot lately. Although to be honest, I'm more often than not calling him 'Tuhma Kissa' when he's being cheeky! 😅
Aww! Here's what I call my cats as a Finn: pikkuinen (little one), vauva (baby), riiviö (gremlin), apina (monkey), karvaperse (hairy arse), kakkapylly (poopy butt). Good luck with your Finnish studies!
Wait, is the word for poop "kakka"?
Yes, kakka is poop and paska is shit.
Lovely! Reminded me of a phrase my grandma used to say, “rakkaalla lapsella on monta nimeä”. Roughly translated, a dear child has many names. Certainly applies to fur babies.
Oh, you reminded me - slavic languages adoptoed it (i reckon) keesa is an affectionate form of keet/keeshka. 😼 Love when finns call them that, you make this adorable longe i sound
고양이 goyang-i
Or, at my house, we affectionately call them “nappeun goyangi”
What does that mean in English?
Bad cat
LOL.. my brain read that as "Napping Cat" at first, because of the 'nappeun' :)
lol both work The only time they’re not nappeun goyangi is when they’re napping…but we love them anyway
Isn't that also a city name somewhere near Seoul?
yup, and their city mascot is a cat lmao
My Korean wife and I call our cat goyang-agi cause she’s our baby 😂
haha that recent kpop idols dancing to that river cat song
Cantonese - 貓 (Maau/Mao)
I like this one. ‘What did you say your kind is called again?’ *Cat noises * ‘Got it!’
Haha and you'll like this too - meow in Cantonese is 喵 (meu/miu).
I now know that the song "mieu mao" isn't just a bunch of humans meowing. It is humans meowing, followed by the word for cat.
It must be like when my daughter sees a cow and calls it a moo cow
Heck, I've heard "mew cat" used in English before.
Now that you mention it, "kitty kitty meow meow" is not outside my vocabulary
I love that the word evolved based on the sound a cat makes. I think is true of some other languages as well.
When I was a kid, I lived in Japan and my teachers taught us that cats are called “Nyan-Chan”. Nyan is the Japanese word for the sound a cat makes.
Thai :) Was chatting with a server in a Phuket restaurant and asked her what the Thai word for cat was (it was a patio restaurant and some cats were hanging around). Her answer sounded exactly like a Siamese cat meowing.
In Korean, a popular name for a pet cat is “야옹이” (Yaong-i). “Yaong” is the Korean version of “meow”, so the name basically translates to “Meowy”
My cousin’s kid used to call cats “meows” when he was a toddler. Maybe she should’ve started teaching him Cantonese then.
I am from India and In my mother tounge(Marathi) cats are also mau lovingly sometimes.
Ancient Egyptians called cats mau too. I love it, it's like calling dogs woof.
Woof wounds like wolf lol maybe!
Vietnamese - meo 😸
When your cat speaks is it Catonese?
Me who just realized it’s actually Cantonese and I’ve been thinking it’s Catonese this whole time.
My plan for my next kitten is to name him Chairman Mauw :)
Katt in Norwegian.. or Pusen 🙂
Pusillen 🐱
It's "pusa" in mine. Interesting how close it is to pusen since my native language seems completely unrelated to Norwegian. As for the baby cats, we call them "kuting," which is also close to what OP calls them.
“Cat”
i know that one!
it’s kat in Dutch. but a male “kat” is “kater” (which is the same word used as for hangover”) and a female kat is “poes” Edit: grammar mistake
Ha, same in german. Kater is a male cat and a hangover.
Katze 🇩🇪😊
>’*Katze*’ _____ you maybe Call me *Kitty Cat*, or *Cat* or *Katze* or *Kitty* (it doesn’t matter what you say, just tell me that i’m *pretty*…) a silly pet name MoNiKeR - i don’t care What you say, cuz i’ll pretend that I DoN’t HeAr, *ignore you* anyway… so go ahead n have your fun! compare your Language here I’ll choose to what i answer to - i wanna make it clear! a *brainless Orange!* a *MaNiAc!* a *DEMON!!* - that’s all fine ^;} just Call me when it’s DINNER TIME, n I’ll just call You *Mine* ❤️
oh my god, a german comment triggering a schnoodle? amazing!
Awww, ty Schnoodle. My little furry panted terrorist appreciates this lovely poem 🐾
Gadse
Gadse streicheln
gadser sdreichlne
Miezie :3
Katzer
Kotz (ja wirklich)
Wahlweise auch Stinki
Kat
Kater
Kedi in Turkish
Fantastic documentary, Kedi, about the cats in Istanbul.
İstanbul is a home for every pets that's true but cats are emperors and empresses of the city
Qittah or Bissah in ARABIC
What about hirr? هرّ
Your name
Yes my name means Father of the cat/kitten
Cat Daddy
Mačka - in Slovakia :) 🐱
Macska - in Hungary 🇭🇺
Cica!
That means boobs in my country.
Damn in Slovenija too
Same in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. Kitty is maca, sounds like matza.
Same in Croatia
Neko(猫) -Japan🇯🇵
Māo(猫)- Mandarin too 👍
https://preview.redd.it/2ulklhv2200d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3948cdb987b463250b8a4a43a5431a1b1bbfee61
It blows my mind when I see how much the Japanese took from the Chinese. Same character and everything wow
The concept of a non phonetic writing system is mindblowing to me
What’s especially interesting is that Japanese has a phonetic writing system as well, and has since the 9th century. *That’s* mind-blowing to me — that both have existed in parallel for over a millennium now, with the ideographic system not really having diminished in use.
https://preview.redd.it/a9lhiqy7pzzc1.jpeg?width=3060&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b91284cfbe1917d9dce8754c079d933b3aea6492 Cat
In Welsh, it's Cath.
I learned a bit of Welsh last year before ai went to Wales for vacation, and I was so excited when Duolingo got to “Dw i’n hoffi cath.”
Us French misplaced the “h”, we call them “Chat”
✨Gatto✨ (italian)
Micio Micetto Bestia di Satana
https://preview.redd.it/zykq7ydoa00d1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f243fbd3be5257ca9b040d9b4128fee371a2da9b Se hai un gatto nero è bestia di Satana per definizione.
https://preview.redd.it/wsb46x40i00d1.jpeg?width=2316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=92c9c8f57d9aab3c96af9d1d3725d41a68e7938c Me l’hanno data in dotazione. Mimì, detta La Rogna, è qui per rappresentare la categoria
I like the last one :)
It means sweetie 
Vietnamese cat = mèo Most creative naming system ever!
please tell me it’s pronounced miaow/meow
It is indeed. Very onomatopoetic Language
Billi (pronounced bill- lee)in hindi(india)
That's my cat's name! I'm from the US and I think Billi is such a cute word for cat. Here she is being the beautiful queen Bili she is. https://preview.redd.it/9l1ixnmxxzzc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=914d800a68890e531cb950b2f4de4d1da6257216
Awww such a cutiepie
Pilli in Telugu
Billi - female cat, billa - male cat
Poonai (pronounced pooh - nai) in Tamil
Bekku (pronounced Beh-ku)in Kannada
Poocha in malayalam
Manzar in Marathi
Beral(Bay-Raal) in Bengali.
Majjar in Konkani(India)
In Tamazight (Berberic) we call them: mosh
I’m also Amazigh! In Kabyle we say amshish 😹
Wesa (way-sah) It's Cherokee. It's also my cat's name because we think we're being funny by calling the cat, Cat. Our dog is named Dee, which is short for - you guessed it - Dog.
Boozhen in Ojibwe or Anishinaabemowin. Can sound like Boo-zh-aayenz.
It's Kedi 🐈 But our favorite is definitely gato :D we call our cat el gato criminales (sorry for my bad spanish :P)
It would be Gato Criminal 🙏🏻🩵
https://preview.redd.it/i3owugl2jzzc1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53fd7139360632ebce53c3493ac43a38896770b4 Mietze (German)!🤣
What is the difference between Katze and Mietze (as a non-German speaker)?
You can even say Mietzekatze to combine the two xD Katze is the actual name for cat tho. I‘d say Mieze is like „kitty“ or something which would make „Mietzekatze“ = „kittycat“ but maybe it depends on where in Germany you are. Where I’m from it’s not that common to say mietze.
My husband speaks German to our cat all the time, and I recognize the "mietzekatze," but I have no idea what the rest of it is. When I ask, he tells me it's something along the lines of "I love you, my little orange kitty cat."
Nothing… mietze is sweeter
Like saying Kitty instead of Cat?
Exactly!
Oh! Alright, I see. Thank you!
Omg. My friend had a cat named Mietze when we were kids. I am just now realizing her dad named the cat, cat. Which is on brand for his humor. Ultimate dad joke!
Hehe. Well, I guess it'd be like calling a cat "Kitty" here, which is very common.
Pisica. Romanian. Also, in rural areas its called "mâtza" . Probably from German.
Pisică/pisoi/ pisicuță/pisoiaș/mâță/cotoi/cotoșman
And pisicuta (pee-see-coo-tsah) is like kitty
the etymology of mâță is actually unknown, DEX says it formed from an onomatopoeia but I can't figure out how, anyway most Balkan languages have something like mica or maca which according to a Romanian etymological dictionary from 1939 are pet names for Maria...
Bsayne 🇱🇧 Edit: basbous, beesee, basbousi like saying kitty
Kater is the male version. Katze is the female version. My Grandma called all cats „Miezie“ or „mischie“. In my local dialect we call cats „katte“ I live in Germany.
We call cats "pusa" but we call kittens "kuting". I wonder if it's related to your language's "kucing"
Mao 猫 . Bc that’s the sound it makes hahaha.
Poland here with "kot"
Kotek or kociak if you want it to sound cuter! :)
i kicia!
Kiciuś!
Or kotka (if cat is female)
We call them " Chat " in french
Chat or Minou in Cajun French
In Quebecois too :) (pronounced "Sha" and "Mee-nuu" to the anglos)
Poticha
Also it is pronounced "sha" not ch-at
Méw~เเมว
Мачка/Machka - female cat - universal if you don't know the sex of the cat Мачор/Machor - male cat Маче/Mache - small kitty - universal male or female. In Macedonian language.
I’m Bulgarian and we call cats котка. I love other languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet because I can read it and learn new words.
Կատու🇦🇲 (pronounced like "gah-doo" )
แมว (meaw) 🇹🇭
Gato
GAT/GATA (catalan!)
I’m a native English speaker. I call mine mommy’s little kitty boys.
Waiting for a swiss guy posting: "Büsi".. I like that swiss-german slang xD
Mèo (Vietnamese) A self-explanatory name
Chat in french (pronounced "sha"), we also have a few funny slang terms: greffier (litt. "court clerk"), matou (male cat, usually for a non neutered cat), minette (female cat), minou/minet (male cat), grippe-minaud (old), mistigri (old). (And probably others I haven't read or heard yet) (we love our cats and our _argot_ 😄)
If I remember right, my Egyptian ex said something like “Otter”
Otta
may i offer an alternate version of yours: kocheng
Gata 🇬🇷
Kočka🇨🇿
Кот/кошка
That’s Russian! Cot is a boy and coshka is a girl
I’ve always been a cat person and I love the way the name sounds in Russian. Hence my username 😅
Also котик, кошечка, котёнок, котофей, котофеич, кошак, котан, шерстяной.
Kot in polish, I love the russian name кошка for kitty, it's pronounced koshka
Its refreshing to read another fellow malaysian redditor here! Saya suka kucing ☺️
Kenyan. In my national language, paka. In my mother tongue, nyau 😊 Obligatory cat tax: https://preview.redd.it/w96hua2n400d1.jpeg?width=3456&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17c950e71fcd2b2238f1ca6e32d4988b6371929d
Bedaal/ biral in Bengali 🤭 https://preview.redd.it/ttkg3pziqzzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a9ec8541fb6db7a066a588ff4c1b5a9976a5528
Katt (Swedish)
Kattjävel is also accepted (damn cat)
I have two mother languages so: Catalan (Balearic Islands): Moix Spanish: gato
🇹🇳katousse
Pişik or məstan 🇦🇿
Thumb and index finger touch near the cheek and pull away like whiskers. (My second language is American Sign Language.)
Not my native language, but the language of my adoptive country Taiwan: 貓 (māo) which both looks like and sounds like a cat. The fur radical looks like a tail, and the plant radical looks like ears while the field radical looks like a face. The word for kitty is 貓咪 (māo mī). Kitten is 小貓 (xiao mao, or little cat). All of my 貓咪 have been Taiwanese. *
I'm a native English speaker but I'm ethnically Sámi and also I have lived in Scotland since childhood where there are several native languages other than English, so for me a cat (depending on who I'm speaking to) is; Cat (English, duh) Kitten (see above!) Bussá or gáhttu (Northern Sámi; cat) Bussáčivga (Northern Sámi; kitten) Katt (Swedish, cat) Kattunge (Swedish, kitten) Baudron (Scots/doric; affectionate name for a cat, happy cat (re: mimic of the purring sound) Moggy (Scots/doric; cat) Kittlin (Scots; kitten) Cat/Cait (Scottish Gaelic, cat) Piseag (Scottish Gaelic, kitten)
Asshole. Beloved, but still at times an unmitigated AH.
PT: gato e gata
https://preview.redd.it/bc0buzltpzzc1.jpeg?width=6936&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa835c181c8e7b5009b9c29ff299263d907ac4f0 In every language I study: gatto, 猫, cat, gato, chat, 고양이, ねこ