atta

See also: Appendix:Variations of "atta"

English

Etymology 1

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Contraction

atta

  1. that's the; that's a
Usage notes

Used principally in expressions like atta boy and atta girl.

Alternative forms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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.

Anagrams

Akkadian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

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
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 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

Etymology

Cognate with Choctaw atta.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /at.ta/

Verb

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

Derived terms
  • aatta
  • ahánta
  • chokmat atta
  • ibaa-atta
  • imatta
  • nannishtatta
  • ánta
  • âtta
  • ashwa (dual subject)
  • *asha, áyyaꞌsha (tri-plural)

Choctaw

Verb

atta

  1. to live

Crimean Tatar

Noun

atta

  1. locative singular of at

Gothic

Romanization

atta

  1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰

Italian

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

Adjective

atta

  1. feminine singular of atto

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

atta

  1. 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

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative atta attae
Genitive attae attārum
Dative attae attīs
Accusative attam attās
Ablative attā attīs
Vocative atta attae

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

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Proto-West Germanic *attō (“father”).

Noun

atta m[1]

  1. father

Descendants

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

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Numeral

ātta

  1. eight

Descendants

Pali

Alternative forms
  • Alternative forms
    • 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

  1. vocative singular of attan

Sicilian

Noun

atta f

  1. Alternative form of gatta

Turkish

Noun

atta

  1. singular locative of at

Yagara

Pronoun

atta

  1. I

References
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