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Other languages, often regarded as more "primitive" than English, have highly evolved vocabularies for denoting family relationships, so that a single word can denote, say, one's maternal grandfather's sister.
Other say that the name is a derivation of scherpe, which means “sharp” — denoting the towers position on a 90-degree bend in the wall.
Almost certainly a loanword, in Old English it is catt ; Welsh and Cornish cath ; Gaelic cat ; Old Irish cat ; Dutch and Danish kat ; Middle Dutch katte ; Swedish katt, katta ; Old Norse kött-r ; Old High German chazza, chataro ; Middle High German katero, kater ; Modern German Katze , but Modern German and Dutch also have kater tomcat ( tom denoting the male of certain species of animal, notably the cat); French chat ; Spanish and Portuguese gato ; Italian gatto ; Old North French cat ; West German katta ; Breton kaz ; Old Slavonic kotŭka, kotka ; Slavonic kot ; Bulgarian kotka ; Russian, male kot , female kotchka, koshka ; Bohemian, male kot , female kotka ; Lithuaniane kate ; Finnish katti ; Polish kot , male cat or tomcat koczur, kocur .
' It has appeared in such unlikely combinations as talkathon, walkathon, aquathon, ski-a-thon, bike-athon, birdathon, sell-athon, sale-athon, curl-a-thon (a `hairstyling extravaganza'), and even the seemingly unnecessary jogathon and runathon (denoting more leisurely or shorter races than a marathon).
Melbourne's Age sees the new figures as denoting "bigger-than-expected tax cuts" in the future, a sentiment that dueled with a quotation from the minister of finance in the Morning Herald : "This Government is not in the business of looking for cuts."
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