Paw in Other Languages


graphic from Ali Noel Vyain

This month’s cat vocabulary is the word paw. Cats usually have four to work with. They tend to fall and flip themselves over to land on all four. Or however they do it. Once I saw Sir Socks jump over me as I was lying on a twin sized bed to see him just before he landed in a half sitting half standing position that cats do. His fur was blown back by the wind.

He was always quite graceful whenever he jumped. It’s amazing to watch him in action.

Saying Paw in European Languages (source)

Language Ways to say paw
Albanian: dorëshkrim
Basque: paw
Belarusian: лапа
Bosnian: šapa
Bulgarian: лапа
Catalan: pota
Croatian: šapa
Czech: tlapka
Danish: pote
Dutch: poot
Estonian: käpp
Finnish: tassu
French: patte
Galician: pata
German: Pfote
Greek: πόδι ζώου(pódi zóou)
Hungarian: mancs
Icelandic: Paw
Irish : lapa
Italian: zampa
Latvian: ķepa
Lithuanian: letena
Macedonian: шепа
Maltese: paw
Norwegian: labb
Polish: łapa
Portuguese: pata
Romanian: labă
Russian: лапа(lapa)
Serbian: шапа(shapa)
Slovak: labka
Slovenian: tačk
Spanish: pata
Swedish: Tass
Ukrainian: лапа(lapa)
Welsh: paw
Yiddish: לאַפּע

Cat Quotes 2:06


graphic by Ali Noel Vyain

There’s no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. —Wesley Bates

Cats are real and living pieces of art. They have so much grace. They are quite athletic. All the jumping they can do. The climbing. The loafing. All with such grace as to make us believe they have some secrets we haven’t mastered yet.

The trouble with cats is that they’ve got no tact. —P. G. Wodehouse

Cats are bold. They will tell you what they think of you without caring how you will react to it. They don’t sugar coat the truth. They just tell you plain and simple. They don’t need to tact to tell us anything.

Paws


graphic by Ali Noel Vyain

We cats have amazing paws. Usually we have four unless something happens in the womb or later in life. We usually land on all four paws when falling or jumping. Sometimes things go wrong. Perhaps because I live with a klutz I caught some of it from her…

Or whatever the reason, usually we do land on all four paws. That’s where we hide our claws when we don’t need to bare them for any reason. We walk on our paws. We can box with our forepaws.

I have been known to impress my girl with my athletic prowess. She’s a klutz and has never been that coordinated in her life. She tries to focus and I think she has improved somewhat, but she’s not as good as I am. So, when she’s watched me jump and land perfectly on my paws, she is wowed by it.

She’s seen me jump over her bed while she was lying in it. She saw me just before I landed in the position I would land in. I ended up half standing half sitting. I was also trying to get away from Spot at the time. *Sigh.* He was annoying me with how playful he was at that time.

But at least I impressed my girl with my landing on all four of my paws.

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