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Gallo-Romance sketch · noun

ˈt͡ʃaty

cat

Part of speech
noun
Gloss
cat
Evidence
attested
Note
Expressive initial voicing is intentionally outside the regular rule set.
Attested from
Classical Latin
Classical Latin
ˈkattu
Earliest form recorded
Late Latin
ˈkattu
unchanged
Proto-Romance
ˈkatu
tt > t
Old French sketch
ˈt͡ʃaty
k > t͡ʃ / #_a; u > y