Kate

Meaning

1. (Northern-Germany, feminine, regional) hut, cot, cottage
2. (feminine) Sometimes used to translate the British English cottage (“country house”)

Concepts

Kate

cabin

hut

🛖

pen

🖊️

shed

Synonyms

Schuppen

Hütte

🛖

Bude

armselige Wohnung

Baracke

Bruchbude

Verschlag

Höhle

Dachkammer

Klause

Kotten

Rumpelkammer

Bretterbude

Behelfsunterkunft

Nissenhütte

Hucke

Erdloch

Bretterverschlag

Notunterkunft

Einfachst-Unterkunft

Budike

Einfachst-Behausung

behelfsmäßige Unterkunft

Behelfsbau

Kabache

Butze

Häuschen

Translations

Kate

Kate

abri

cabane

enclos

hutte

🛖

Kate

Kate

covacha

Kate

كايت

chiribitil

Kate

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkaːtə/

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch: kot

Cognate with English: cot

Cognate with Old High German: hutta

In summary

From Low German Kote, from Middle Low German kote, from Proto-Germanic *kutan, *kuta- (“shed”), whence also Dutch kot, English cot, cottage. The a-spelling reflects the merger of ā and ō in some dialects of modern Low German; it was possibly standardised in order to avoid the similarity with Kot (“excrement”).
The word may be of non-Indo-European origin and is perhaps derived from Proto-Uralic *kota; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”). On the other hand, compare Old High German hutta, whence German Hütte, Dutch hut, English hut.