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catkin

Meaningcat

Common meaning: slender cluster of small flowers

Journey through time

  1. Middle Dutchkatte‘cat’source
  2. Middle Dutchkatteken‘kitten or catkin’source
  3. Englishmeaning shiftscat → slender cluster of small flowerscatkin‘slender cluster of small flowers’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Middle Dutch katte ‘cat’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Concise Etymological Dictionary (1911), entry CATKIN, p. 80 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • katte Middle Dutch “cat”

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