You need to be a little bit more lenient when comparing different languages. As far as I know, “cat” shared the same build pattern in many languages: guttural-a

You need to be a little bit more lenient when comparing different languages. As far as I know, “cat” shared the same build pattern in many languages: guttural-a-dental Cat - gato - katze - qOt This, like the case of shai/tea implies that the animal expanded rather late and quickly from the same region (Asia?) Mobile phone, giraffe, etc. sound and are written also similar in all Arabic and Latin scripts. You can download the translations from the HTML source of any Wikipedia article and put them on a spreadsheet, if that’s what you’re into