not sure why but so it's beer,which is the same in tons of languages except in spanish with cerveza. Wonder where they got that from :) The word for Cat in Italian and Spanish has a hard sounding G at the start but it's close enough.

"The word cat derives from Old English catt, which belongs to a group of related words in European languages, including Welsh cath, Spanish gato, Basque katu, Byzantine Greek kátia, Old Irish cat, German Katze, and Old Church Slavonic kotka. The ultimate source of all these terms is Late Latin catus, cattus, catta "domestic cat", as opposed to feles "European wildcat". It is unclear whether the Greek or the Latin came first, but they were undoubtedly borrowed from an Afro-Asiatic language akin to Nubian kadís and Berber kaddîska, both meaning "wildcat". This term was either cognate with or borrowed from Late Egyptian čaus "jungle cat, African wildcat" (later giving Coptic šau "tomcat"), itself from earlier Egyptian tešau "female cat" (vs. miew "tomcat"). The term puss (as in pussycat) may come from Dutch poes or from Low German Puuskatte, dialectal Swedish kattepus, or Norwegian puse, pusekat, all of which primarily denote a woman and, by extension, a female cat." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat#Etymology Even if it also comes from Late Latin cattus, you don't hear those sounds in the french word "chat" (/ʃa/ ) Here a list of words for cat in diverse languages: "allemand : Kater (de)* masculin, Katze (de)* féminin anglais : cat (en)* arabe : هر (ar)* (hirr) masculin, هرة (ar)* (hirra) féminin arménien : Õ¯Õ¡Õ¿Õ¸Ö‚ (hy)* (katou) albanais : mace (sq)* féminin asturien : gatu (ast)* bambara : jakuma (bm)* bemba : pushi (bem)* bengali : বিড়াল (bn)* ; িবলাড় (bn)* breton : kazh (br)* bulgare : котка (bg)* féminin chinois : 猫 (zh)* (māo) coréen : 고양이 (ko)* (go.yængi) corse : gattu (co)* espagnol : gato (es)* masculin espéranto : kato (eo)* éwé : dadi (ee)* frioulan : ÄŸhat (fur)* gallurais : ghjattu ganda : kapa ; pusi goudjarati : બિલાડી (gu)* féminin, બિલાડો (gu)* masculin grec : γάτα (el)* (gata) haïtien : chat hindi : बिल्ली (hi)* féminin (billî), बिल्ला (hi)* masculin (billâ) indonésien : kucing (id)* islandais : köttur (is)* italien : gatto (it)* masculin japonais : 猫 (ja)*, (ねこ neko) キャット (ja)* (kyatto) kikongo : niau kinyarwanda : jangwe (rw)* konkânî : माज़रा (kok)* kurde : pisik (ku)* lombard : gatt marathe : मांजरी (mr)* mendé : ɡɔ́nɛ̌ moldave : писикэ (mo)* (pisikă) néerlandais : poes (nl)* normand : cat (en jersiais) occitan : cat (oc)* ossète : гӕды (os)* (gædy) ourdou : بيلی (ur)* pali : biḷāla (pi)* pendjabi : ਬਿੱਲੀ (pa)* persan : گربه (fa)* piémontais : gat polonais : kot (pl)* portugais : gato (pt)* masculin, gata (pt)* féminin provençal : cat (prv)* roumain : pisică (ro)* romani : Å£iÅ£ây (rom)*; mâçka (rom)* russe : кот (ru)* (kat) sarde : munninnu (sc)* sicilien : gattu (scn)* songhaï : mushi, haila sotho du Nord : katse (nso)* swahili : paka (sw)* tadjik : гурба (tg)* (gurba) ; пишак (tg)* (pišak) tamoul : பூனை (ta)* tchèque : kočka (cs)* télougou : పిల్లి (te)* turc : kedi (tr)* vénitien : gato wallon : tchèt (wa)*, cat masculin, tchat masculin wolof : muus (wo)* ; wundu (wo)* zoulou : ikati (zu)* Chat mâle (2) : allemand : Kater (de)* masculin anglais : tomcat (en)* breton : kazh (br)* portugais : gato (pt)* tchèque : kocour (cs)* Félin (3) : allemand : Katze (de)* féminin anglais : cat (en)* néerlandais : kat (nl)* portugais : felino (pt)* " Source: http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/chat

English is part of the Germanic group of languages, which includes German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, so their basic vocabulary is quite similar (they having been one people just over 2000 years ago)eg cat/Katze(Kater)/kat etc The Germanic group is part of a wider group of languages known as the Indo-European languages, which spread from Northern India to Europe and include the subgroups Celto-italic(Welsh/Irish, Scots Gaelic, Manx and Breton), Slavic (Russian, Polish etc), Romance/Latin (French, Italian,Spanish Romanian), Hellenic/Greek (with possibly Armenian Albanian) and Indo-Iranian (including Farsi/Persian Hindi/Urdu, Pashtun/Afghani languages and Sri Lankan). The basic vocabularies of all these languages show that all these peoples were related and only began moving out of their original homeland near the Caspian Sea around 6000 BC. When you look at Classical Latin, the word for cat is felinus. The daughter languages seem to use a vulgar or common Latin word for cat which became chat(Fr), gatto(It) and gato(Sp). The Romanian word, though, is pisica or mata, which is quite different. Iwnit has provided a great selection of the word "cat" in many languages, which show that not all have the hard c/g and t sound, although those closest the roman region of influence seem to. This could indicate that cats (domestic cats) spread at this era from North Africa, where they were found. This is borne out by the word for cat in Nubian, an unrelated language, which is kadis. It seems that the domestic cat was spread by the Romans from North Africa, and with it came the word, derived from its place of origin.

Latin word 'feles' is cognate with Pilli in Telugu and Billi in Hindi. Pussy is cognate with "miyyav" - children's word to imitate the sound made by a cat. Velars 's', 'y' and 'j' are at times replaced for one another in some tongues. One popular example is - Yamuna and Jamuna are the names of the same river in India. The Romanian word pisica is a variation of the word 'pussy'. "As a term of contempt for a woman, from c.1225. Slang sense of prostitute is from at least 1401." http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cat The etymology of the word 'cat' has to be understood from cultural history than from linguistic analysis. L.L. cattus, German Katze, Nubian kadis, are cognate with Gadasaani in Telugu - a female acrobat who performs on a rope stretched above the ground carrying a stick for balancing. She can also crawl up a long vertically standing stick like a cat. (We know that a dog can not do that). Gada means 'stick' and Saani means a prostitute. These women were notorious since ancient times to be acrobats in the feats of prostitution.