атай

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Bashkir

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ata (father; uncle; ancestor).

The final -y is originally a vocative affix.

Also see ата (ata, father).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): ,
  • Hyphenation: а‧тай

Noun

атай (atay)

  1. father, dad
    Атайыңа сәләм әйт!
    Atayıña sələm əyt!
    Say hello to your father!
    Атаһы эргәһендә бала бер нимәнән дә ҡурҡмай.
    Atahı ergəhendə bala ber nimənən də qurqmay.
    A child is not afraid of anything (when) next to his/her father.
    Хаттың тышында адресын күреү менән атайымдың ҡулын таныным.
    Xattıñ tışında adresın kürew menən atayımdıñ qulın tanınım.
    As soon as I saw the address on the envelope, I recognized my father's handwriting.

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Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic اتاي
Cyrillic атай
Latin atai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ata (father; uncle; ancestor).

Noun

атай (atai)

  1. old gentleman

Udmurt

Etymology

Borrowed from a Turkic language, from Proto-Turkic *ata. Compare Tatar ата (ata), Bashkir атай (atay) and Kazakh ата (ata).

Pronunciation

Noun

атай (ataj)

  1. (chiefly Southern) father, papa

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References

  • L. E. Kirillova, L. L. Karpova, editors (2008), “атай”, in Удмурт-ӟуч кыллюкам, Izhevsk: Удмуртский институт истории, языка и литературы УрО РАН, →ISBN, page 50
  • T. V. Voronova, T. A. Poyarkova, editor (2012), Удмурт-ӟуч, ӟуч-удмурт кыллюкам (overall work in Russian), Izhevsk: Книжное издательство «Удмуртия», →ISBN, page 9
  • Yrjö Wichmann, Toivo Emil Uotila (1987) Mikko Korhonen, editor, Wotjakischer Wortschatz (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae; Volume 21) (overall work in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 10