pron. Old English hwÃ¦t, from Proto-Germanic *khwat (cf. Old Saxon hwat, Old Norse hvat, Danish hvad, Old Frisian hwet, Dutch wat, Old High German hwaz, German was, Gothic hva what), from PIE *qwod, neuter singular of *qwos who (see who).
Yes, cats can see the color purple. Cats seem to be able to distinguish between higher frequency colors, meaning cats respond to the colors purple, blue, green and possibly yâ¦ellow range. Red, orange and brown colors appear to fall outside cats color range and are most likely seen as shades of grey or purple.
A closeup of a cat's eye. Cats have a visual field of view of about 200Â°, compared to 180Â° in humans, but a binocular field (overlap in the images from each eye) narrower than that of humans.As with most predators, their eyes face forward, affording depth perception at the expense of field of view. domestic cat's sense of smell is about fourteen times as strong as a human's. Cats have twice as many receptors in the olfactory epithelium (i.e. smell-sensitive cells in their noses) as people do, meaning that cats have a more acute sense of smell than humans.