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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/attô

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *átta. Cognate with Latin atta (“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.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɑt.tɔːː/

Noun

*attô m [1]

  1. father, dad
    Synonym: *fadēr
  2. forefather

Inflection
masculine an-stemDeclension of *attô (masculine an-stem)
singular plural
nominative *attô *attaniz
vocative *attô *attaniz
accusative *attanų *attanunz
genitive *attiniz *attanǫ̂
dative *attini *attammaz
instrumental *attinē *attammiz

Descendants
  • Old English: *ætta, *atta
    • Middle English: (dadde, dadd)
  • Old Frisian: *atta
  • Old Dutch: *atto, *etto
  • Old High German: atto
    • Middle High German: atte
      • Alemannic German: Ätti, Ätte
        Italian Walser: attu, àttu, attò
        • ⇒ Alemannic German: Großätti, Großatt
      • Bavarian: Ätt
        ⇒ Cimbrian: tatta ?
      • German: [Term?]
        • ⇒ German: Großätti
  • Old Norse: atti
  • Gothic: 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 (atta)

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*attan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 39
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