atta
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "atta"
English
Etymology 1
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Contraction
atta
Usage notes
Used principally in expressions like atta boy and atta girl.
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Hindi आटा (āṭā, “flour, farina, dough”).
Noun
atta (countable and uncountable, plural attas)
- (India) A type of wholegrain flour from the Indian subcontinent.
- 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 7:
- Kabutri, in the meanwhile, had kneaded some atta and rolled out a few real rotis.
- 2020, Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body: Stories, Algonquin Books:
- The little bits of atta on her hands turned the water a milky white and that was all she could offer to her children’s hunger.
Anagrams
Akkadian
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *ʔanta m (“thou”). Cognate with Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta) and Biblical Hebrew אַתָּה (ʔattɔ́).
Pronunciation
- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /ˈat.ta/
Pronoun
atta
- you, thou (second-person masculine singular personal pronoun, nominative case)
- 𒀀𒈾𒆪 𒅇 𒀜𒋫 [anāku u atta] ― a-na-ku u₃ at-ta ― you and I (literally, “I and you”)
Alternative forms
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See also
| Independent forms | Pronominal Suffixes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | Oblique² | Dative | Predicative³ | Possessive⁴ | Accusative⁵ | Dative⁵ | |||
| Singular | 1st | anāku | yâti | yâšim, ayyâšim | -āku | -ī, -ya | -anni, -nni, -ninni | -am, -m, -nim | |
| 2nd | m | atta | kâta | kâšim, kâšum | -āta | -ka | -ka | -kum | |
| f | atti | kâti | kâšim | -āti | -ki | -ki | -kim | ||
| 3rd | m | šū | šuāti, šuātu, šâti | šuāšim, šâšim | - | -šu | -šu | -šum | |
| f | šī | šuāti, šâti | šuāšim, šâšim | -at | -ša | -ši | -šim | ||
| Plural | 1st | nīnu | niāti | niāšim | -ānu | -ni | -niāti | -niāšim | |
| 2nd | m | attunu | kunūti | kunūšim | -ātina | -kunu | -kunūti | -kunūšim | |
| f | attina | kināti⁶ | kināšim⁶ | -ātunu | -kina | -kināti | -kināšim | ||
| 3rd | m | šunu | šunūti | šunūšim | -ā | -šunu | -šunūti | -šunūšim | |
| f | šina | šināti | šināšim⁶ | -ū | -šina | -šināti | -šināšim | ||
- 1. This table gives Old Babylonian inflection.
- 2. Used to express the Accusative and Genitive case.
- 3. Used exclusively on adjectives to form the predicative construction.
- 4. Used on nouns and prepositions.
- 5. Used on verbs. Always follows the Ventive.
- 6. Still unattested form.
Chickasaw
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
atta (singular subject)
- (active voice, intransitive) to be born
- (active voice, transitive, nominal object) to live in
- Oklahommaꞌ ishattatok. ― You have lived in Oklahoma.
Inflection
| Verbs beginning with a vowel. | Singular | Plural | Inclusive Tri-Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st-person (I, we) | attali atta-li | N/A | N/A |
| 2nd-person (you, you all) | ishatta ish-atta | N/A | |
| 3rd-person (he, she, it, they) | atta | N/A | |
Class I Verb Subjects (Active)
Derived terms
- aatta
- ahánta
- chokmat atta
- ibaa-atta
- imatta
- nannishtatta
- ánta
- âtta
Related terms
- ashwa (dual subject)
- *asha, áyyaꞌsha (tri-plural)
Choctaw
Verb
atta
- to live
Crimean Tatar
Noun
atta
Gothic
Romanization
atta
- Romanization of 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰
Italian
Pronunciation
Adjective
atta
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
atta
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”). Cognates include Hittite 𒀜𒋫𒀸 (attas), Gothic 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 (atta), Old Church Slavonic отьць (otĭcĭ) and Ancient Greek ἄττα (átta).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈat.ta/, [ˈät̪ːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈat.ta/, [ˈät̪ːä]
Noun
atta m (genitive attae); first declension
- father (term of respect for an old man)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- Sicilian: tatà
- Neapolitan: (archaic) tatà, (Apulia) attène
- Tarantino: [Term?] (/attánə/, “dad”)
References
- “atta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "atta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- atta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “atta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Old Frisian
Old Swedish
Pali
Sicilian
Turkish
Yagara
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