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atta

See also: Appendix:Variations of "atta"

English

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Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Contraction

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atta

  1. that's the; that's a
Usage notes
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Used principally in expressions like atta boy and atta girl.

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Etymology 2

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From Hindi आटा (āṭā, “flour, farina, dough”).

Noun

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atta (countable and uncountable, plural attas)

  1. (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.

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Akkadian

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Etymology

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

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Pronoun

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atta

  1. 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
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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 kināti⁶ kināšim⁶ -ātunu -kina -kināti -kināšim
3rd m šunu šunūti šunūšim -ā -šunu -šunūti -šunūšim
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.

Chickasaw

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Etymology

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Cognate with Choctaw atta.

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Verb

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atta (singular subject)

  1. (active voice, intransitive) to be born
  2. (active voice, transitive, nominal object) to live in
    Oklahommaꞌ ishattatok. ― You have lived in Oklahoma.

Inflection

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Class I Verb Subjects (Active)
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
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Choctaw

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Verb

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atta

  1. to live

Crimean Tatar

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Noun

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atta

  1. locative singular of at

Gothic

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Romanization

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atta

  1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰

Italian

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Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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atta

  1. feminine singular of atto

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Japanese

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Romanization

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atta

  1. Rōmaji transcription of あった

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”). Cognates include Hittite 𒀜𒋫𒀸 (attas), Gothic 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 (atta), Old Church Slavonic отьць (otĭcĭ) and Ancient Greek ἄττα (átta).

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Noun

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atta m (genitive attae); first declension

  1. father (term of respect for an old man)

Declension

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First-declension noun.

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

Descendants

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  • Sicilian: tatà
  • Neapolitan: (archaic) tatà, (Apulia) attène
    Tarantino: [Term?] (/⁠attánə⁠/, “dad”)

References

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  • “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

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Etymology

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Proto-West Germanic *attō (“father”).

Noun

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atta m[1]

  1. father

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  1. ^ von Richthofen, Karl (1840) “atha, atta, ettha”, in Altfriesisches Wörterbuch (in German), Dieterich Göttingen, page 613

Old Swedish

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Etymology

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

Numeral

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ātta

  1. eight

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Pali

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Noun

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atta

  1. vocative singular of attan

Sicilian

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Noun

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atta f

  1. Alternative form of gatta

Turkish

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Noun

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atta

  1. singular locative of at

Yagara

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Pronoun

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atta

  1. I

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