ā̆tos, atta (ḫatta)

    ā̆tos, atta (ḫatta)

    English meaning: father, mother

    Deutsche Übersetzung: Lallwort “Vater, Mutter”

    Material: O.Ind. attü “mother, older sister “, atti-ḥ “ older sister “, Osset. äda, Gk. ἄττα “ old man, old fellow, father “, dial. acc. ἄτειν, ἄττειν “grandfather”, Lat. atta m. “father; term of endearment of the children towards the father “, Goth. atta “father” (Dimin. Attila, O.H.G. Ezzilo), O.Fris. aththa ds., O.H.G. atto “father, forefather, ancestor” (tt by running always besides unpostponed neologism), O.C.S. оtьcъ (*attikós) “father”; Alb. at “father”, joshë “ (on the maternal side) grandmother” (*üt-si̯ü?), Hitt. at-ta-aš (attaš) “father”.

    Note: Alb. and Slav use prothetic j- for lost old laryngeal ḫ-. A similar *ü̆to-s in Gmc. *aÞala, *ōÞela appears the basis from O.H.G. adal “ sex, gender “, Ger. Adel, O.S. athali, O.E. æđelu n.pl. “ noble parentage “, O.Ice. ađal “ (the rudimentary basis of an organ or other part, esp. in an embryo) anlage, sex “, adj. O.H.G. edili, O.S. ethili, O.E. aeđele “ noble, aristocratic “, lengthened grade O.H.G. uodal, O.S. ōthil, O.E. ēđel, O.N. ōđal “(fatherly) genotype “ (compare also O.H.G. fater-uodal, O.S. fader-ōđil “ property inherited from a father, patrimony “); here Goth. haimōÞli n. “ genotype “, compare with the same vocal length O.H.G. Uota (actually “ great-grandmother “), O.Fris. ēdila “ great-grandfather “; Toch. A ütäl “ man “; here also Av. üϑwya- “ name of the fathers Θraētaona ’s” as “ from noble parentage “? The affiliation from Gk. ἀταλός “ in a juvenile manner, childish “, ἀτάλλω “ gathers, waits and is in habit “ and “ jumps cheerfully like a child “, red. ἀτιτάλλω “ draws up (Redupl. under influence from τιθήνη “ nurse “?), is denied by Leumann Gl. 15, 154. One on the most different linguistic areas to itself always newly pedagogic babble-word (e.g. Elam. atta, Hung. atya “father”, Turk. ata, Basque aita ds.). Similarly tata.

    References: WP. I 44, WH. I 77, 850, Feist 62, 233, Trautmann 16.