The story
- Italian · derived fromgatto“cat”
- Maltese · borrowed fromGatt
- Middle High German · derived fromgate“companion”
- German · borrowed fromGatt
- English todayGatt
Various origins: * A variant of Galt, a Scottish surname. * Borrowed from South German Gatt, a short form of a personal name containing Middle High German gate (“companion”); compare modern German Gatte (“husband”). * Borrowed from Maltese Gatt, which could derive from Italian gatto (“cat”) or be a short form of the personal name Agatha.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.