The story
- Lower Sorbian · derived fromkót“tomcat”
- English todayKoth
* As a German surname, from the noun Kate (“hut, cottage”). Compare Kotz. Also shortened from names starting with Gott (“god”), such as Gottfried. * Also as a Germanized Slavic name, from Polish, Czech and Lower Sorbian kót (“tomcat”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.