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Cebuano
Etymology
From older ata-ata
Pronunciation
Noun
ataata
- Diospyros mindanaensis, a tree found in Mindanao
Greenlandic
Etymology
From Proto-Inuit *ạta-ata, from Proto-Eskimo *ata-ata. Cognate of Inuktitut ᐊᑖᑕ (ataata) and Inupiaq taata.
Pronunciation
Noun
ataata (plural ataatat)
- father
Declension
Inuktitut
Noun
ataata
- Latin spelling of ᐊᑖᑕ (ataata)
Maori
Etymology
Reduplication of ata.
Noun
ataata
- shadow, image
- video
Descendants
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “ataata”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 22
- “ataata” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.