How does つった translate to cat with stiff legs in: 足がつった猫?


I saw this line as a caption under a cat YouTube: 足がつった猫 Google translate
comes back with : cat with stiff legs. 足が = legs 猫 = cat But つった, I found on
this website is a slangy contaction of つって past tense. But isn't that
"saying"? I cannot seem to discover how the tsutta makes his legs stiff

Thanks for any help.




つった is past tense of つる - there are several verbs pronounced つる, but they all
have the same inflection. As far as I can tell using Jisho, the relevant word
is 攣る "to cramp; to be cramped; to contract", normally written in kana (that
is, after all, a very complex kanji). A [web
search](https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=%E8%B6%B3%E3%81%8C%E3%81%A4%E3%81%A3%E3%81%9F&iax=images&ia=images)
implies that 足がつった is a common collocation (especially if we look at image
results): "[my] leg has cramped". Thus 足がつった猫 is a cat described by 足がつった,
i.e. a cat for which its leg is (or legs are) cramped, i.e. a cat with stiff
legs.




つった is past tense of つる - there are several verbs pronounced つる, but they all
have the same inflection. As far as I can tell using Jisho, the relevant word
is 攣る "to cramp; to be cramped; to contract", normally written in kana (that
is, after all, a very complex kanji). A [web
search](https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=%E8%B6%B3%E3%81%8C%E3%81%A4%E3%81%A3%E3%81%9F&iax=images&ia=images)
implies that 足がつった is a common collocation (especially if we look at image
results): "[my] leg has cramped". Thus 足がつった猫 is a cat described by 足がつった,
i.e. a cat for which its leg is (or legs are) cramped, i.e. a cat with stiff
legs.

