Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea. · A (usually small) box, chest, or tin with a lid, and often with partitions, used to keep things in. · A small lidded bin for food waste. · A movable tray or other mechanism for holding (sometimes within a piece of equipment or machinery), securing, and transporting a removable component.
An alteration of catty (“(unit of) weight used in China, equivalent to 1⅓ pounds avoirdupois (about 0.605 kilograms)”), borrowed from Malay kati (“weight used in China, Indonesia, and Japan”), from Tamil கட்டி (kaṭṭi, “measure of weight; clod, lump”), from கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to coagulate, congeal, or consolidate (into a concretion); to harden”).
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