atá

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ata"

Irish

Etymology 1

Inflected form of bí; from Old Irish at·tá.

Pronunciation

Verb

atá

  1. present indicative independent affirmative progressive relative of bí
    Labhróidh mé leis an mbuachaill atá ag dul abhaile.
    I will speak to the boy who is going home.
    • 2015 [2014], Will Collins, translated by Proinsias Mac a' Bhaird, edited by Maura McHugh, Amhrán na Mara (fiction; paperback), Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Howth, Dublin: Cartoon Saloon; Coiscéim, translation of Song of the Sea (in English), →ISBN, page 1:
      Thuas i dteach an tsolais, faoi réaltaí geala, canann Bronach Amhrán na Mara dá mac Ben atá cúig bliana d'aois.

Etymology 2

Inflected form of at (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

Verb

atá

  1. second-person singular past subjunctive of at

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
atá n-atá hatá not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Verb

a·tá

  1. Alternative spelling of at·tá

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈta/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: a‧tá

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ata, from Proto-Tupian *atʲa.

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní tata and Paraguayan Guaraní tata.

Noun

atá (IIa class pluriform, absolute tatá, R1 ratá, R2 satá) (possessable)

  1. fire
Related terms
Descendants
  • Nheengatu: atá

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ata.

Noun

atá (possessable)

  1. walk; hike
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
  2. ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais‎ (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈta/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: a‧tá

Verb

atá

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of atar
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