atta

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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.

Alternative forms

thatta

Derived terms

attaboy, atta boy
attadog, atta dog
attagal, attagirl, atta girl

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

Tata, ta ta, ta-ta, tata

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Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔanta m (“thou”). Cognate with Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta) and Biblical Hebrew אַתָּה (ʔattɔ́).

Pronunciation

(Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/

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”)

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Cuneiform spellings
Phonetic
𒀜𒋫 (at-ta)

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Etymology

Cognate with Choctaw atta.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /at.ta/

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

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Verbs beginning with a vowel.	Singular	Plural	Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person (I, we)	attali atta-li	N/A	N/A
2nd-person (you, you all)	ishatta ish-atta	N/A
3rd-person (he, she, it, they)	atta	N/A

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Derived terms

aatta
ahánta
chokmat atta
ibaa-atta
imatta
nannishtatta
ánta
âtta

Related terms

ashwa (dual subject)
*asha, áyyaꞌsha (tri-plural)

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Verb

atta

to live

Noun

atta

locative singular of at

Romanization

atta

Romanization of 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/
Rhymes: -atta
Hyphenation: àt‧ta

Adjective

atta

feminine singular of atto

Anagrams

tata

Romanization

atta

Rōmaji transcription of あった

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

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/, [ˈät̪ːä]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/, [ˈät̪ːä]

Noun

atta m (genitive attae); first declension

father (term of respect for an old man)

Declension

First-declension noun.

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	singular	plural
nominative	atta	attae
genitive	attae	attārum
dative	attae	attīs
accusative	attam	attās
ablative	attā	attīs
vocative	atta	attae

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Descendants

Sicilian: tatà
Neapolitan: (archaic) tatà, (Apulia) attène
Tarantino: [Term?] (/⁠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

Alternative forms

aththa, atha, eththa

Etymology

Proto-West Germanic *attō (“father”).

Noun

atta m^[1]

father

Descendants

North Frisian: ate, aatj, taatje, tääte
West Frisian: heit

References

[1]
von Richthofen, Karl (1840) “atha, atta, ettha”, in Altfriesisches Wörterbuch [Old Frisian Dictionary] (in German), Dieterich Göttingen, page 613

Alternative forms

ata, āta

Etymology

From Old Norse átta, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral

ātta

eight

Descendants

Swedish: åtta

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts
- 𑀅𑀢𑁆𑀢 (Brahmi script)
- अत्त (Devanagari script)
- অত্ত (Bengali script)
- අත‍්ත (Sinhalese script)
- အတ္တ or ဢတ္တ or ဢတ်တ (Burmese script)
- อตฺต or อัตตะ (Thai script)
- ᩋᨲ᩠ᨲ (Tai Tham script)
- ອຕ຺ຕ or ອັຕຕະ (Lao script)
- អត្ត (Khmer script)
- 𑄃𑄖𑄴𑄖 (Chakma script)

Noun

atta

vocative singular of attan

Noun

atta f

Alternative form of gatta

Noun

atta

singular locative of at

Pronoun

atta

I

References

State Library of Queensland, ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES OF THE GREATER BRISBANE AREA, 16 March 2015.

[1] [1]
von Richthofen, Karl (1840) “atha, atta, ettha”, in Altfriesisches Wörterbuch [Old Frisian Dictionary] (in German), Dieterich Göttingen, page 613

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Akkadian personal pronouns¹
			Independent forms			Pronominal Suffixes
			Nominative	Oblique²	Dative	Predicative³	Possessive⁴	Accusative⁵	Dative⁵
Singular	1^st		anāku	yâti	yâšim, ayyâšim	-āku	-ī, -ya	-anni, -nni, -ninni	-am, -m, -nim
	2^nd	m	atta	kâta	kâšim, kâšum	-āta	-ka	-ka	-kum
	2^nd	f	atti	kâti	kâšim	-āti	-ki	-ki	-kim
	3^rd	m	šū	šuāti, šuātu, šâti	šuāšim, šâšim	-	-šu	-šu	-šum
	3^rd	f	šī	šuāti, šâti	šuāšim, šâšim	-at	-ša	-ši	-šim
Plural	1^st		nīnu	niāti	niāšim	-ānu	-ni	-niāti	-niāšim
	2^nd	m	attunu	kunūti	kunūšim	-ātina	-kunu	-kunūti	-kunūšim
	2^nd	f	attina	kināti⁶	kināšim⁶	-ātunu	-kina	-kināti	-kināšim
	3^rd	m	šunu	šunūti	šunūšim	-ā	-šunu	-šunūti	-šunūšim
	3^rd	f	šina	šināti	šināšim⁶	-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.

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