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running out of memes so spellings of cat rule (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] LordAmplifier@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.