“Katte-” as a prefix means relating to a cat. Eg. “Kattepoter” = “cats paws”
Gat means the cloaca on a fish or a bird (cloaca is the all-in-one hole on fish, birds, etc.)
I realize this is probably a very wrong interpretation, but in that case, i don’t want to be right.
Carighan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re not wrong, the name does derive from kat and gat, dutch words for cat and hole respectively. It’s not a cloaca as on a fish, rather it just means “hole”.
Supposedly so named because of how narrow the routes were you could safely take through it.