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running out of memes so spellings of cat rule (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sunnie@sopuli.xyz to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] callyral@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

huh, this really shows how languages in europe are generally closely related

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even Finnish and Hungarian aren't that weird in this one

[–] LordAmplifier@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In this case, that's because both languages borrowed their words for cat. Finnish "kissa," according to wiktionary, comes from Swedish "kissa/kisse" (a more colloquial synonym of "katt"), and Hungarian "macska" is a Slavic loan word of unknown origin :3

I'd love to know what these languages original / native terms for cat were, if they had any.