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English
Etymology 1
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Contraction
atta
that's the ; that's a
Usage notes
Used principally in expressions like atta boy and atta girl .
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
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 ”)
Cuneiform spellings
Phonetic
See also
Akkadian personal pronouns¹
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
kināti ⁶
kināšim ⁶
-ātunu
-kina
-kināti
-kināšim
3rd
m
šunu
šunūti
šunūšim
-ā
-šunu
-šunūti
-šunūšim
f
šina
šināti
šināšim ⁶
-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
Cognate with Choctaw atta .
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
Class I Verb Subjects (Active)
Verbs beginning with a vowel.
Singular
Plural
Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person (I, we)
attaliatta-li
N/A
N/A
2nd-person (you, you all)
ishattaish-atta
N/A
3rd-person (he, she, it, they)
atta
N/A
Derived terms
Choctaw
Verb
atta
to live
Crimean Tatar
Noun
atta
locative singular of at
Gothic
Romanization
atta
Romanization of 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰
Italian
Pronunciation
Adjective
atta
feminine singular of atto
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
atta
Rōmaji transcription of あった
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
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: ( /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
Etymology
Proto-West Germanic *attō ( “ father ” ) .
Noun
atta m [ 1]
father
Descendants
References
^ von Richthofen, Karl (1840 ) “atha, atta, ettha”, in Altfriesisches Wörterbuch [Old Frisian Dictionary ] (in German), Dieterich Göttingen, page 613
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse átta , from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu , from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw .
Numeral
ātta
eight
Descendants
Pali
Noun
atta
vocative singular of attan
Sicilian
Noun
atta f
Alternative form of gatta
Turkish
Noun
atta
singular locative of at
Yagara
Pronoun
atta
I
References