tatta
English
Etymology
Noun
tatta (plural tattas)
- (India) A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is allowed to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tatta”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Cimbrian
Etymology
Probably from Italian tata, from Latin tata (“dad, daddy”), of onomatopoeic origin. Alternatively from Middle High German tate (“father”), from Old High German *tato, from Proto-West Germanic *dadō (“father, dad”).
References
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Sranan Tongo Ptata (“Dutch person”), from ptata (“potato, fries”). Doublet of patat and bataat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɑ.taː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: tat‧ta
Noun
tatta m (plural tatta's, diminutive tattaatje n)
- (slang, sometimes derogatory) An autochthonous Dutch person.
- Synonym: bakra
Pali
Alternative forms
- 𑀢𑀢𑁆𑀢 (Brahmi script)
- तत्त (Devanagari script)
- তত্ত (Bengali script)
- තත්ත (Sinhalese script)
- တတ္တ or တတ်တ (Burmese script)
- ตตฺต or ตัตตะ (Thai script)
- ᨲᨲ᩠ᨲ (Tai Tham script)
- ຕຕ຺ຕ or ຕັຕຕະ (Lao script)
- តត្ត (Khmer script)
- 𑄖𑄖𑄴𑄖 (Chakma script)
Declension
| Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative (first) | tatto | tattā |
| Accusative (second) | tattaṃ | tatte |
| Instrumental (third) | tattena | tattehi or tattebhi |
| Dative (fourth) | tattassa or tattāya or tattatthaṃ | tattānaṃ |
| Ablative (fifth) | tattasmā or tattamhā or tattā | tattehi or tattebhi |
| Genitive (sixth) | tattassa | tattānaṃ |
| Locative (seventh) | tattasmiṃ or tattamhi or tatte | tattesu |
| Vocative (calling) | tatta | tattā |
| Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative (first) | tattā | tattāyo or tattā |
| Accusative (second) | tattaṃ | tattāyo or tattā |
| Instrumental (third) | tattāya | tattāhi or tattābhi |
| Dative (fourth) | tattāya | tattānaṃ |
| Ablative (fifth) | tattāya | tattāhi or tattābhi |
| Genitive (sixth) | tattāya | tattānaṃ |
| Locative (seventh) | tattāya or tattāyaṃ | tattāsu |
| Vocative (calling) | tatte | tattāyo or tattā |
| Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative (first) | tattaṃ | tattāni |
| Accusative (second) | tattaṃ | tattāni |
| Instrumental (third) | tattena | tattehi or tattebhi |
| Dative (fourth) | tattassa or tattāya or tattatthaṃ | tattānaṃ |
| Ablative (fifth) | tattasmā or tattamhā or tattā | tattehi or tattebhi |
| Genitive (sixth) | tattassa | tattānaṃ |
| Locative (seventh) | tattasmiṃ or tattamhi or tatte | tattesu |
| Vocative (calling) | tatta | tattāni |
References
- Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “tatta”, in Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead
Swedish
Etymology
Back-formation from tattare (“Traveller, Gypsy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²tatːa/
Verb
tatta (present tattar, preterite tattade, supine tattat, imperative tatta)
Conjugation
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | tatta | tattas | ||
| Supine | tattat | tattats | ||
| Imperative | tatta | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | tatten | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | tattar | tattade | tattas | tattades |
| Ind. plural1 | tatta | tattade | tattas | tattades |
| Subjunctive2 | tatte | tattade | tattes | tattades |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | tattande | |||
| Past participle | tattad | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||