English

flat-headed cat

From flat + headed + cat.

A compound of flat + headed + cat

Proto-Germanic *flataz ‘flat’

Old Norse flatr ‘flat, level’

Middle English flat ‘level’

English flat

Proto-Germanic *kattuz

Proto-West Germanic *kattu

Old English catt ‘male cat’

Middle English cat ‘cat’

English cat

Today it means

noun Prionailurus planiceps, a small wild cat patchily distributed in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / flat-headed cat