What is the etymology of the word Katsu?


I heard from an English man that the katsu karē (カツカレー) dish was from English
inspiration originally: he told me that the word 'katsu' is coming from cutlet
and 'karē' would be curry.

Please can anyone confirm this ?




Your hypothesis that カツ stems from _cutlet_ seems correct. According to
[kotobank](http://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%84?dic=daijirin), カツ is the
shortened form of カツレツ, i.e. _cutlet_. See
[here](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B1%9A%E3%82%AB%E3%83%84#.E6.AD.B4.E5.8F.B2)
for its culinary history.

