• LordAmplifier@pawb.social
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      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.