Ätti

• attò, attu, àttu, Ätte

From Middle High German atte, from Old High German atto, from Proto-Germanic *attô, from Proto-Indo-European *átta. Cognate with Latin atta (“father”) and Albanian atë (“father”). The word was probably originally only a vocative, but was extended with a full paradigm in most descendants, including Germanic where it was reformed as a masculine n-stem.

• (Swiss) IPA^(key): /ˈætti/

Ätti m (plural Ätti) (Switzerland)

1. father, dad
   • 1834, Johann Peter Hebel, “Die Vergänglichkeit”, in J. P. Hebels sämmtliche Werke, page 177:

     Der Bueb seit zum Aetti: / Fast allmol, Aetti, wenn mer’s Röttler Schloß / so vor de Auge stoht, se denki dra, / öbs üsem Hus echt au e mol so goht.

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2. grandfather
3. forefather