Post #4377

😉I vote for 'gatto'! 🔻Scholars believe the word кот(cat) is a borrowing from Latin, where cattus meant wild cat. 🔻It entered Slavic languages from the southwest, via Vulgar Latin. 🔻The word кот sounds very similar in many languages around the world. Russian🇷🇺: кошка English🇬🇧: cat French🇫🇷: chat Spanish 🇪🇸: gato Italian🇮🇹: gatto German🇩🇪: Katze Portuguese🇵🇹: gato Dutch🇳🇱: kat Swedish 🇸🇪: katt Danish🇩🇰: kat Norwegian🇳🇴: katt Finnish🇫🇮: kissa Polish🇵🇱: kot Czech🇨🇿: kočka Slovak🇸🇰: mačka Hungarian🇭🇺: macska Romanian🇷🇴: pisică Greek🇬🇷: γάτα ❓How does the word кот/кошка sound in your native language? #brief_and_interesting 😎 Stay with @learnRCRussian