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Origin of cats

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 6/24/2024

It is a near European universal word from Latin Catta brought by the Romans. The Greek word is also Katta, earlier Arabic words are Kadis and Kadiska and even Qat. Egypt domesticated cats as along ago as 2000 bC

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