different between gattu vs bitts

Corsican

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??at?u/

Noun

gattu m (plural gatti)

1. Alternative form of ghjattu

References

• “ghjattu, gattu, ghiattu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin cattus. Cognates include Italian gatto and Spanish gato.

Noun

gattu m (plural gattos, feminine gatta, feminine plural gattas)

1. cat

Synonyms

• mussittu

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• attu, iattu, jattu

Etymology

From Late Latin cattus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??at.tu/, /??at.tu/
• Hyphenation: gàt?tu

Noun

gattu m (plural gatti)

1. cat

Related terms

• gatta

English

Etymology

Middle English, probably of Low German or North Germanic origin, and the English form a corruption or contraction, from Old Norse biti, probably ultimately from a variant of Proto-Germanic *bitiz. Compare Swedish beting and Danish beding.

Noun

bitts pl (plural only)

1. (nautical, plural only) A frame composed of two strong oak timbers (bitt-heads) fixed vertically in the fore part of a ship, bolted to the deck beams to which are secured the cables when the ship rides to anchor

Derived terms

References

• An etymological dictionary of the English language, p. 65
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Luxembourgish

Verb

bitts

1. second-person singular present indicative of bidden