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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 .
(Alas, despite the 18th-century spelling, gaumless, I believe the term comes from Old Norse gaumr heed).
Johnson believed that ugly , which was sometimes spelled oughly , derived from ouph , a variant of elf . Modern experts are satisfied that it grew from Old Norse uggligr `to be feared or dreaded.
In his “Feather Report” of 27 October 1990, in The Times , Simon Barnes lists the following nicknames for the nightjar: fernowl, fen owl, jar-owl, churn-owl, goat-owl, goatsucker, nighthawk, dorhawk, moth hawk, wheelbird, puck bird, litch fowl , and gabble ratch , the last having its origins in the Norse meaning `corpse hound,' (similar to litch fowl , which means `corpse fowl').
Wilkinson, identified as having studied Classics, Old English, and Old Norse at Cambridge, worked as a Forestry Commission woodman, an occupation that evidently afforded him the time and solitude required to concentrate on compiling and writing such a work, though no indication is given of how long he took to complete it.
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