atta

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atta

1. that's the; that's a

Used principally in expressions like atta boy and atta girl.

• thatta

• attaboy, atta boy
• attadog, atta dog
• attagal, attagirl, atta girl

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

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.

• Tata, ta ta, ta-ta, tata

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

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/

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
𒀜𒋫 (at-ta)

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.

Cognate with Choctaw atta.

• IPA^(key): /at.ta/

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.

• ashwa (dual subject)
• *asha, áyyaꞌsha (tri-plural)

atta

1. to live

atta

1. locative singular of at

atta

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰

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

atta

1. feminine singular of atto

• tata

atta

1. Rōmaji transcription of あった

From Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”). Cognates include Hittite 𒀜𒋫𒀸 (attas), Gothic 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 (atta), Old Church Slavonic отьць (otĭcĭ) and Ancient Greek ἄττα (átta).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/, [ˈät̪ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/, [ˈät̪ːä]

atta m (genitive attae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• Sicilian: tatà
• Neapolitan: (archaic) tatà, (Apulia) attène

  Tarantino: [Term?] (/⁠attánə⁠/, “dad”)

• “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

• aththa, atha, eththa

Proto-West Germanic *attō (“father”).

atta m^[1]

1. father

• North Frisian: ate, aatj, taatje, tääte
• West Frisian: heit

• ata, āta

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

ātta

1. eight

• Swedish: åtta

• Alternative scripts

  • 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)

atta

1. vocative singular of attan

atta f

1. Alternative form of gatta

atta

1. singular locative of at

atta

1. I

• State Library of Queensland, ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES OF THE GREATER BRISBANE AREA, 16 March 2015.