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1) Originally only in pronominal declension. 2) The original instrumental, equative, similative & comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages. 3) Plurality is disputed in Proto-Turkic. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page in Wikibooks.
Chuvash: ата(at̬a, “a man who leads a wedding escort to a bride's house in order to take her to the bridegroom”), аталăх(at̬alăh, “the work of such a man”)(via Kipchak?)
Sevortjan, E. V. (1974) “ата”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Nauka, pages 200-201
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ata”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill